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Election 2022: Are We Ready?

Live at the National Constitution Center

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Do You Think the Independent State Legislature Doctrine Is Consistent With the Constitution?

David French: I think the electoral count act is consistent with the constitution. He says there's actually some case law here in the hurricane and the blizzard of cases that arose as a result of the election steel effort. And so you had two Trump appointees, Brett Ludwig in the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and then you had Michael Scutter writing the opinion in the Seventh Circuit who grappled with this independent state legislature doctrine. So let me sort of take it one by one.

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