Mitch McConnell Has a New Strategy to Undermine Voting Rights

As it became clear he had lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump attempted to exploit a 135-year-old law to cling to power. The Electoral Count Act was put in place in 1887 to prevent constitutional crises like the one sparked by the controversial 1876 contest between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. But the ECA is famously vague, and John Eastman, a conservative attorney working with Trump, drafted a plan, based on a dubious interpretation of the law, for Mike Pence to dismiss electors in seven key states and declare Trump the winner—the matter would then,… Read Full Article