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Does Trump Have Any Legal Standing?

Now the US election may be going to the wire but in an extraordinary speech yesterday morning US ...

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07.31 5 Nov 2020


Does Trump Have Any Legal Standing?


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07.31 5 Nov 2020


Now the US election may be going to the wire but in an extraordinary speech yesterday morning US president Donald Trump called on vote counting to stop declaring himself the winner while also threatening to take the issue to the Supreme Court. So does the US president have any legal standing here? To help us understand we heard from Ben Sheehan a US constitutional expert and Author of “OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say?

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