Jon Lovett

So there was some dissensus between the conservative justices.

What was the kind of arguments you were hearing from, say, Alito and Thomas versus what you were hearing from, say, Kavanaugh and Barrett?

Didn't Kavanaugh, though, question whether doing that would be feasible?

Didn't he raise some concerns about that?

Or am I being too optimistic?

Tell me.

So I agree that when California takes forever to count ballots and during that process, suddenly you go from a Republican winning to a Democrat winning, that that creates an impression that leads people to question whether things are fair, even if they are entirely fair and there is no evidence to suggest they aren't fair.

But presumably it's a bad policy.

It's a bad policy.

But presumably the Supreme Court doesn't believe federal law should be made to assuage false concerns.

They're trying to interpret what the law says.

Are they suggesting that we've that the elections we've been running have all been a foul of federal election law?

Or are they just ignoring this all together?

I am a summer child.

I'm going to spring out in LA here.

Yeah, it's nice.

Right.

Well, because if the state has an interest in making their elections fair, the state would be the one trying to protect their electoral interest.

Perhaps one way they're trying to make sure the elections are fair is by counting.

You know, then that would be there.