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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

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What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

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🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

During the 2000 Presidential Election, it wasn’t immediately certain who had won the electoral college votes in Florida, throwing the entire process into chaos. Eventually, the SCOTUS had to step in to rule on the outcome. With the 2020 election only a few days out, we take a look back at how the Supreme Court played a role in adjudicating the election in Bush v. Gore, and then we look forward to what might happen this time around.

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0:00.0

So, Roman, do you remember what happened at the beginning of the month?

0:04.2

I do not. I mean, there's a lot of things happening in the month.

0:07.4

A lot happened.

0:08.6

Well, Trump got COVID.

0:10.2

He did get COVID and I thought that that would be the subject of our conversation this time around.

0:18.0

It is quite simply that the president of the United States and the first lady

0:22.5

have both tested positive for the coronavirus.

0:26.0

Remember, very early in the middle of the night,

0:28.8

an October second, Trump tweets out that he and the first lady have tested positive.

0:34.4

And then the president spends the next couple of days at Walter Reed National Medical Center,

0:40.5

where he gets an experimental treatment that's not available to the general public,

0:44.6

as well as a bunch of other things.

0:46.4

He gets released a few days later in October 5th.

0:49.2

Then, you know, by now, this is the end of October.

0:52.4

He's campaigning and he says he feels just fine.

0:55.5

You remember, during those few days, everyone was wondering,

0:58.4

well, what if Trump got so sick that he couldn't campaign anymore,

1:02.3

or worse, what if he died before the election,

1:05.7

or who had people vote for if his name was still on the ballot?

1:10.0

What if he's so sick right now and he's not telling us,

1:13.7

should he temporarily hand over power to Vice President Pence?

1:18.2

Well, so all those things kind of more or less resolve themselves,

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