Government,
Constitutional Law
Dec. 15, 2020
Lessons from the 2020 election
Democracies are fragile and ours will survive only if our leaders of both parties stand up for it.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
The glass-half-full story of the 2020 presidential election is that the guardrails of democracy worked and the candidate who won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will be sworn in on January 20, 2021. The glass-half-empty story is that there was a more systematic effort to undermine democracy than ever has occurred in American history. Both stories are true and have major implications for the future.
The 2020 election s...
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