Trump Is Planning a More Respectable Coup Next Time

Rick Hasen: “Come 2024, crass and boorish unsubstantiated claims of stealing are likely to give way to arcane legal arguments about the awesome power of state legislatures to run elections as they see fit.”

“Forget bonkers accusations about Italy using lasers to manipulate American vote totals and expect white-shoe lawyers with Federalist Society bona fides to argue next time about application of the ‘independent state legislature’ doctrine in an attempt to turn any Republican presidential defeat into victory.”