Well, hello, everyone. Im bhan behalf of georgetown law, i want to welcome you to our conversation on constitutional priorities. My name is nean neal katyal. Im joined by general paul clement. Thank you for joining me. Paul this should be fun. Neal i think we should dig into how this transition might be different than past transitions. And maybe well talk a little bit about the specific cases that could be impacted by the change in the administration. Maybe we should talk a little about that too. Right before getting into all that, paul, would you just mind introducing yourself to the audience . Paul sure, i would be happy to neal. My name is paul clement. Ill just talk about two things that are relevant for todays presentation. First, is just the georgetown connection. Im a georgetown undergrad and somebody who has been teaching at the law school in various capacities since the clinton impeachment, since 1998. Thats when i featured a separation of powers class at the law school some o
Justice, the Holocaust Museum l. A. , the forward, and the pico union project. As it is thanksgiving eve, just a word on that topic. On october 3, 1863, at the height of a bloody war dividing our country, Abraham Lincoln issued a thanksgiving proclamation which officially established thanksgiving as a national holiday. He proclaimed that though the nation was at war with itself, there were still blessings for which both sides could experts gratitude. He also proclaimed despite the painful and divided times, all americans should be concerned about those suffering as a result of civil strife. He set for the last thursday of november as thanksgiving. He asked everyone to pray to heal the wounds of the nation, and restore it to the full enjoyment of peace, tranquility, and union. President elect biden spoke today to the American People, he similarly acknowledged the countrys deep divide, and he also urged unity. A statement that harkens back to lincolns thanksgiving day proclamation, presi
Certainly i will. Certainly i will. And you know that. Howie when reuters correspondent jeff mason kept pressing him about the Electoral College, the president punched back. Look, between you people dont talk to me that way. Youre just a lightweight. Dont talk to me that im the president of the united states. Dont ever talk to the president that way. Howie the media largely celebrating President Trumps decision to cooperate with a joe biden election without concession. The 2020 president ial election was not fair. No honest person would claim that it was fair. They rigged the election in front of all of us. And nobody did anything about it. Unless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and frankly unlikely manner, joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th. To say this constitutes living in reality. And if i offered you a false reality, if i told you there was an excellent phenomenal chance that the Supreme Court was going to step in and deliver a victory to President Trump, id b
President s favor that support President Trumps legal challenges. The Trump Campaign today alleged a pattern of problems in nearly all of the key battleground states. There were three tranches of ballots up counted that were found in georgia amounting to nearly 6,000 votes. You have 234 pages of sworn affidavits in michigan in one county alone alleging egregious misconduct by poll workers pushing back on is servers, allegations of fraud. There are real questions that need to be asked because we need integrity in our election systems. Lou all of our guests on this evenings broadcast will be taking up President Trumps fight for a free and Fair Election. President trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, among our guests. He joins us with the latest from pennsylvania. And the president s challenges against voter fraud in key battleground states. As does attorney jesse banal who just filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump Campaign to overturn nevadas election results. Two of our guests tonight have
2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a