Fox News Analyst: Trump Revenge Threat 's Lies Takes Ap's Lies

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/primary_image/23/08/nbc-jamie-raskin-080623.png" //divpFormer House impeachment manager and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin explained to a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-august-6-2023-n1307001"emMeet the Press/em/a host Chuck Todd why Trump lawyer a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/trump-attorney-attempt-overthrow-election"John Lauro's ridiculous argument/a that Trump's attempt to overturn the election was somehow "aspirational" but not "criminal" isn't going to hold up in court./p

pImmediately following Lauro's disastrous interview, Todd asked Raskin, "It was my understanding if you violate the Constitution, you have violated the law."/p

blockquotepREP. JAMIE RASKIN: strongWell, first of all, a technical violation of the Constitution is a violation of the Constitution./strong The Constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and makes that a grievous constitutional offense. Um so our Constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections and trying to overthrow the government. /p

pstrongBut in any event, there's a whole apparatus of criminal law which is in place to enforce this constitutional principle. That's what Donald Trump is charged with violating. He conspired to defraud the American people out of our right to an honest election by substituting the real, legal process we have under federal and state law with counterfeit electors. /strong/ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/raskin-takes-apart-trump-lawyer-john" target="_blank"read more/a/p