Litigating the Vote: 2024 Gears Up to Be the MostContested Election in U.S. History

Election 2024 is the most litigated election in history, say experts and we have just seen the beginning. In 2020, Donald Trump’s supporters filed 62 lawsuits post-election and lost 61 of them. This year, we already have had 130 lawsuits filed leading up to the election and promises of hundreds more following Election Day. Big time election lawyers are involved on both sides. Gineen Bresso is heading the GOP “election integrity” efforts along with Trump campaign counsel David Warrington. The Democrat’s team is head by Dana Remus and one of the nation’s top election lawyers, Marc Elias. Both teams are wargaming various scenarios and preparing legal pleadings, in advance, so they can be filed quickly after the election. In 2024, both sides have amassed war chests to challenge election results. The Republican National Committee has reportedly raised $90 million to support its efforts and the Democrats have raised $14.5 million. Pre-election, the Republicans have targeted overseas voting, mail-in ballots and purging election roles as targets. Post-election, the targets will likely be the counting of ballots, certification of results by the states and the selection of electors from each state. If Trump loses, his team may try to stall the results passed specified deadlines to get the House of Representatives (controlled by Republicans) to select him President by what is deemed a “contingent election” under the 12th Amendment to the constitution. On this edition of Next Witness…Please, retired judges Thomas Hodson and Gayle Williams-Byers discuss the litigation options and break them down into understandable terms. You may find more about election litigation at: https://www.democracydocket.com/ and https://www.justsecurity.org/