Opening Arguments

OA576: Election Laws and Lies, with Lawrence Lessig

Last week, you heard us play a few clips of John Eastman lying his ass off on Lawrence Lessig's <a href="https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/">Another Way podcast</a>. Well, now Professor Lessig is here to give us an expert breakdown of some of the election law issues raised by team big lie. Also, how is our election system vulnerable to the next Republican attack in 2024? Links: <a href="https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/185eastmanreply.pdf">Friday eastman pleadings</a>, <a href="https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/185eastmanreply.pdf">court response</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/openargs/status/1501249025105821699">Opening Arguments on Twitter</a> live tweet thread, <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21402817/eastman-v-thompson-ruling.pdf"> Ruling</a>, <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.160.0.pdf"> 1/6 brief</a>, <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21066248/eastman-memo.pdf">Eastman memo</a>, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15">3 US Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress</a>, <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/09/21/privileged.and.confidential.--.jan.3.memo.on.jan.6.scenario.pdf"> Longer Eastman memo</a>, <a href="https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/185eastmanreply.pdf">Eastman reply</a>

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