Jeff Mandell: “Nobody ever thought that someone would try something as…”

“And what we're doing is we're using some old established common law ideas to try to get at this conduct. Fundamentally, the problem is Nobody ever thought that someone would try something as audacious as what these fake electors did in these seven states. So there is no law that says you can't do that because we don't pass laws that tell people not to do things that nobody would ever imagine someone would do.” (00:36–00:43)

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