Attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Dershowitz” that his defense team was preparing “replacement electors” for Al Gore’s challenge to the results of the 2000 Florida presidential election. said.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith have filed a lawsuit against Trump over his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election and his defense team’s use of a list of “alternative electors.” Secured the indictment of Trump. Dershowitz said it’s difficult to explain how it’s a crime, given that alternate electors have been used historically, including in the 1960 presidential election. (Related: Dershowitz predicts Supreme Court’s ‘liberals’ will ‘go along’ for halting cases against Trump)

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“Washington, DC on January 6th and Fulton County, Georgia on January 6th. It’s hard to explain the day, because basically what they did was the recount said, ‘No, no, no, no, it’s not the Democrats who won. It’s the Republicans who won. Therefore, the Republican Party prepared a list of alternate electors and submitted it to the Vice President on December 6th or January 6th, 2021, which would have made the list of electors officially decided. Dershowitz said. “We don’t have an alternate slate of electors, and on January 5th, the court rules and says, ‘Oh, we looked at this and these votes are being counted improperly, or this is unconstitutional.’ ”Take Pennsylvania, for example. ”

“We know that in Pennsylvania, the governor allowed people to vote and count votes after polls closed,” Dershowitz said. “Now Congress has said no. The governor has overruled Congress, but the Constitution clearly states that it is the state’s decision how to conduct presidential elections in each state. [legislature]. Therefore, the Supreme Court clearly would have held that votes cast after the polls were closed are unconstitutional. Now, those alone wouldn’t have changed the election results. Let’s assume that would have changed the outcome in Pennsylvania, which election officials say could have happened. ”

Looking back at contested elections in American history, Dershowitz said three cases involved special slates in the 1876 and 1960 elections. The Gore-Lieberman campaign said it would have developed a plan similar to the one the Trump campaign had in 2020 had it won its legal effort in the Florida recount. (Click here to watch the Daily Caller documentary “Rigged: The Death of the American Voter”)

“We need an alternate elector. That happened in the Tilden Hayes election. It happened in the Kennedy election in Hawaii, where they were registering alternate electors,” Dershowitz said. “When I was litigating Bush v. Gore, that was our plan. That was an idea that the constitutional law professors came up with: Make the electors alternate. “Because the Supreme Court, Bush We didn’t know until we decided to stop counting against Gore, and we didn’t know who won in Florida.”

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