Massive Election Day Case at the Supreme Court

Added: 2026-06-10

[00:00:00]Let's go ahead and take a call right off the top. I want to go to Eric in North Carolina. Go ahead, Eric.

[00:00:04]>> I'm literally just angry, ticked off, frustrated at what's going on with Republicans when it comes to the Save America Act. Fraud begets fraud. What's happened over there with Spencer Pratt and even linked to what's going on in Minnesota and Tim Walt. The Save America Act is the very thing that's going to stop fraud that's going on such as in Minnesota, but also would make out the elections that happened over there in California where Pratt was literally robbed because the Save America Act type of procedures that would have prevented this from happening. So these so-called conservatives, the John Thuns, the Marowskis, Tom Telis, they're not realizing that they are literally destroying not just their party, they're destroying their country and they are actually enabling fraud to continue because it leads to more fraud. So I'd love your comment on this, but I'm really angry to be honest.

[00:00:56]>> Well, Eric, a couple points there. One, the Save America Act specifically wouldn't necessarily affect the mayoral race in California. uh nor would it necessarily the governor's race because those are state elections and the Save America Act would be more related to federal elections. There would be a differentiation there and so California could continue to make their own state rules uh in that situation and we think [clears throat] we know how they would go and this is something we actually have a brief at the Supreme Court. We represented members of Congress. I believe it was 29 members of Congress and this has to do with that after the election counting and there's actually up at aclj.org you can read it. The fight for election day is now at the Supreme Court ACLJ brief addresses key arguments. It's already been heard. This is Watson versus the Republican National Committee and we should have an opinion at the end of this term about this as we represented 29 members of Congress. The key question is this. Does federal law require that mail-in ballots be received by election day or can states extend that deadline by days or longer after the election is concluded? This once again federal elections but could have trickle down to things like the mayor.

[00:02:14]That is one of the big problems with the mayoral race in LA.

[00:02:17]>> Marks. It's not.

[00:02:18]>> It's that if they was sent by the day of the election, they can get it up to 10 days later, which how would that work?

[00:02:25]How did it take 10 days? If you live in LA and sent it in LA, it took 10 days to get to the election office. Don't know.

[00:02:32]But if it's postmarked by that day, they can still count it for up to 10 days.

[00:02:36]That's a big problem. What we are arguing at the Supreme Court is that election day means election day. They have to receive the ballot by then, not just be postmarked by then. And that's what we represent members of Congress on. We hope to have that decision soon.

[00:02:51]Uh the term is much longer, only a few more weeks. Normally they are done. we should have at least an an answer >> by the end of this month. So, we will hopefully get a good opinion in that that is kind of setting the the rules and a lot of times the states have to if they're receiving federal support for their elections, even if it's a state election, we'll have to conform to those rules, too. But, Eric, it's a problem.

[00:03:14]And it goes back to that they say they want to save democracy over and over and over again. But all of the things they do to continue to win in their agenda and further their agenda makes people trust that democracy less and less. And let's say all those votes are on the up and up. Let's take this hypothetical. No one's going to believe me in the chat.

[00:03:37]That's fine. Let's say it does.

[00:03:38]>> Well, no. It's it's not about whether it is on the up and up, >> right? It's just the emotional drive that comes when these kind of delays happen and tanches of votes show up.

[00:03:50]>> That's what I'm saying.

[00:03:50]>> It's it's beyond whether you believe it to be true or not.

[00:03:54]>> But let's say every single votes on the up and up. Every statistical anomaly is just that, an anomaly, but it exists.

[00:04:02]>> It takes the credibility and throws it out the window and it makes people trust the system less and less. It's a it's a danger to the democratic process. And what happens the next time there doesn't have to be this uh mirage or this red mirage they call it because people just quit voting.

[00:04:21]>> They feel so defeated. And I think that's kind of the game plan to some degree as well.