Mark Elias

do this.

I'm more worried that the people who are shooting through doors and shooting women in the face and the other things, that they're going to be the ones doing it.

So I think it's a template, but I think it could be worse.

Yeah, so I'm glad you mentioned that.

You know, Mike Johnson, I represented President Biden and the Democrats against the 60-plus lawsuits that we helped defeat.

And Mike Johnson played a very critical role at that time.

Mike Johnson garnered support in the House for a brief before the U.S.

Supreme Court to try to overturn the election in four states.

And then when that failed, he was sort of the whip.

He was a backbencher, but he was effectively the whip for getting Republicans in the House to vote against certification on the night of January 6th, even after all the violence.

So this guy's credentials as an election denier, as you point out, are hardcore.

Now he's the Speaker of the House.

And the Speaker of the House has a lot of power.

I mean, the Speaker of the House not only can move legislation, but the Speaker of the House can claim to speak for Congress in terms of what he wants the executive branch to do or not do with respect to voting.

Now, you know, he doesn't have unilateral power in that regard, but he will certainly, I am sure when the time comes, give rhetorical cover.

Because as you point out, what the Constitution says is that far from the states being the agents of the federal government, in fact, the states have primary responsibility for setting the time, place, and manner of elections, except Congress, through appropriate legislation, can overturn those.

And obviously, Mike Johnson alone can't pass legislation, but you can see he could give the kind of cover that...

Donald Trump to say, well, I really do speak for the House.

And that would be dangerous.

You know, one of the lawsuits that my law firm and I just won in Washington, D.C., the federal judge specifically found that the president, Donald Trump, has no power over elections.