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Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup

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Do You Know if You Can't Represent the State in Litigation Over an Election?

The universe of states where these machinations actually could be despositive for the electoral vote going to a candidate other than the one that won it. So you have new laws in arizona that affect who the referee is. Trump was asking state legislatures to d certify the certifications of the election and the certified electors representing their states. On trouble with that, thereis no such thing as dcertification. It doesn't exist under the ution or under any of the state laws. And so arizonas proposed a bill that said that at any point until the inauguration of the next president, the state legislature would have sole authority, by a simple majority vote, to dcertify

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