'A Major Deal, Serious Allegations': Trump Legal Team Member Weighs in on Post-Election Challenges
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- President Trump's legalstrategy is in full gear.
There are lawsuits fromGeorgia to Michigan,
from Nevada to Pennsylvania,
also allegations related tovoter fraud and irregularities.
Joining us now to helpus understand all this
and give us an updateon where things stand
is the executive director
of the American Center forLaw & Justice, Jordan Sekulow.
Welcome Jordan.
- Thanks Mark, thanks for having me.
- Where exactly do things stand
with the president's legal fight?
- You know, I also serve onthe president's legal team
outside of my role at the ACLJ,
so of course we start with Pennsylvania.
There's a number oflegal challenges there,
but one is already at the Supreme Court.
And a stay that was put inplace Friday by Justice Alito
is still in effect as the time
we're talking together right now,
and that was a stay to segregate
all the late arriving mail-in ballots.
You could count them,
but you could not include themin the actual total votes.
So that has actually beenreferred to the full Court.
The full Court has not yet made a decision
on how they are going to proceed on that.
So there's Pennsylvania.
And then you're juststarting to see the lawsuits,
like you mentioned, fromstates across the country,
the key battlegrounds,whether it's Michigan, Nevada,
Arizona, potentially Georgia as well,
because of the full handrecount that was announced today
by the Georgia secretary of state.
I would just tell everybodywatching right now,
it took 37 days from the 2000 election
until we got the rulingfrom the Supreme Court
that put George W. Bushahead in the electoral count
and made him presidentof the United States.
We're only about eight days into this.
And so in the beginning, youheard all these accusations
of things happeningall across the country.
Is it machines, is it peoplethat are doing the wrong thing?
Are there missing ballots,are there extra ballots?
Are there dead peoplevoting, Sharpie issues?
All these different things.
Then you give us a week
and we've kind of started to put together
the actual legal cases that aregoing to be brought in court
either by the RNC, the Trump campaign,
or the president's legal team.
- What role does the ACLJ have in this?
Does it have a role in this as well?
- It does because we, of course,
at the American Center for Law & Justice,
you know, one of our top issues
is protecting the Constitutionalrights of all Americans.
That would include theirlegal right to vote,
to make sure that if they voted legally
that their vote is not,
again, canceled out by someonewho voted either illegally
or a ballot that shouldn'thave been accepted,
or a ballot that was too late
and that law that waschanged was done improperly.
So there's a Constitutional issue,
the ACLJ will be involvedin in the federal courts,
especially if it hits the Supreme Court
on issues like equal protection,
that every American's voteshould be treated the same
and whether that voteis a legal vote or not
should also be treated the same.
So whether the signature machinesare matching up correctly.
I mean, we've got a whole host of issues
that at the ACLJ it has nothing to do
with partisan politics,
it has to do with protectingthe Constitutional rights
of Americans and theintegrity of your vote
and my vote and our votes.
- Jordan, what are your thoughtson the election results?
- I think, as of today,I get this question a lot
because I'm a member ofPresident Trump's legal team,
so you can imagine people ask,
"Is there really enoughlegal issues out there?"
And I say after this morning,
when Georgia announced afull recount, hand recount,
but also an audit of theirvote, that is a major deal.
And that's a state that could flip.
There are people thathave done the statistics
that that could flip to President Trump.
There's the cases out of Pennsylvania.
There are very serious allegations
coming with the voting machines as well
that actually if youuse electronic ballot,
but you get that piece of paper
and then you stick it into that machine,
37 states use a machine that'sbeen reporting problems.
You can imagine how that could change
the outcome of an election.
So I ask people to giveus the same amount of time
that the Bush campaign hadback in 2000, it was 37 days.
We're about eight days into this.
Take it all with a grain of salt,
let the attorneys do their job,
and again we're gonnamake sure that the vote,
the integrity of the vote is secured,
whether that is a voteultimately that favors
President Trump or Joe Biden.
- How do you think allthis is going to end?
- You know, I think there'sonly two ways it ends.
It either ends with a kindof massive Supreme Court case
where they actually include,I think, a lotta these cases
from different states together
and they do a multi-hour case,
which they're doing some of right now
because they're doingeverything by conference call.
We participated in one of those
as the president's legal team.
My dad it right from where I am right now
talking to you, Mark.
And it was on conferencecall and not Zoom, no video.
And they went way over the normal amount
of one hour time total for each argument.
So it would either end inkind of the massive case
that could determine theoutcome at the Supreme Court,
or it will end at the lower court levels.
And so it kinda goes all the way up
or these lawsuits kinda gomidway and don't get above that.
And if they don't make it allthe way to the Supreme Court,
it means that probably Joe Biden
is president of the United States.
If you get to the Supreme Court,
I think, again, this is all,
and you get these cases all there
where it's outcome determinative,
that is the key term to look for,
is that the cases combinedwould change the outcome
of where we see theelectoral votes right now.
And those are the two options.
It's either gonna beoutcome determinative cases
at the Supreme Court within 30 days,
or Joe Biden will be president.
- All right, the executive director
of the American Center forLaw & Justice, Jordan Sekulow.
Thank you for your time today, Jordan.
- Thank you, Mark.