Checks & Balances: Threats to This American Election
Checks and Balances presents, with host Paul Rosenzweig, a weekly podcast discussing and analyzing legal threats to the November election.
We found 5 episodes of Checks & Balances: Threats to This American Election with the tag “2020”.
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Election Litigation Looms
October 26th, 2020 | 47 mins 22 secs
2020, amy coney barrett, donald trump, elections, joe biden, scotus
With more than 300 cases pending it seems clear that the Supreme Court may play a decisive role in the next election. On this week’s Checks and Balances podcast, Richard Bernstein and Trevor Potter join host Paul Rosenzweig to discuss the Court’s inconsistent jurisprudence and the dangers to its own credibility.
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How Trump Has Diminished American Stature
October 5th, 2020 | 49 mins 22 secs
2020, budgets, covid-19, defense, dhs, donald trump, elections, intelligence community, joe biden, nato, politics, russia, secretary of state, tradition, vladimir putin
John Bellinger and Kenneth Wainstein join to discuss how President Trump's national security decisions have put America, and its reputation, at risk. Plus, what a second term of Trump might look like for American national security.
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Malign Foreign Influence and 2020
September 28th, 2020 | 51 mins 12 secs
2020, china, christopher wray, disinformation, donald trump, fbi, joe biden, russia, tpusa
Nina Jankowicz and Cindy Otis join host Paul Rosenzweig to talk about Russia's influence on the 2020 elections, and threats from American disinformation.
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Doubts about the Durham Report
September 14th, 2020 | 50 mins 22 secs
2020, department of justice, doj, donald trump, durham report, e. jean carroll, elections, joe biden, william barr
Stuart Gerson and Ryan Goodman join host Paul Rosenzweig to discuss the timing and nature of the Durham Report, the policy against DOJ interference in elections, and William Barr's controversial move to have the federal government defend President Trump regarding a decades-old rape allegation by E. Jean Carroll.
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Bill Kristol on Making The Election Work
September 6th, 2020 | 25 mins 14 secs
2020, disinformation, donald trump, election integrity, elections, facebook, peaceful transitions, vote by mail
On the inaugural episode of Checks & Balances: Threats to This American Election, Bill Kristol joins host Paul Rosenzweig to discuss the greatest threats to election integrity, and why it's important for everyone to make the 2020 election fair, free, and accepted. They also discuss the role of disinformation, nightmare scenarios, and the importance of peaceful transitions of power.