Law professor, cited by Trump attorney John Eastman, says his argument was abused as part of a 'ploy [View all]

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Source: Business Insider

to get Pence to overturn the 2020 election

A law professor whose work was cited as part of an effort to overturn the 2020 election says former President Donald Trump's legal team butchered his argument as part of their "ploy" to disenfranchise millions of voters.

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"This reading of the 12th Amendment has also been advanced by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe," Eastman claimed, citing a September 2020 article co-written by the former Obama administration official.

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But nowhere in the September 2020 piece did Tribe and his coauthors argue that Pence would have the power to do any of this on his own, be it rejecting slates of electors or handing the matter off to the House.

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"This Eastman memo pretends to be based on my analysis," he posted on Twitter, "but in fact takes snippets of my work wholly out of context and spits a totally fake web of 'law' that no halfway decent lawyer would take seriously."

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