Some Republicans want to mount a legal challenge to the nomination of Kamala Harris.
They have no case.
Biden was "not the official nominee—nobody is, until there's a vote. So Biden need not be replaced, because he was never the official candidate," legal scholar Rick Hasen wrote in an op-ed on Monday.
"There is a zero point zero, zero, zero percent chance that Mike Johnson and his fever dream of somehow there being legal action to prevent Kamala Harris... to keep [her] off the ballot, there is no chance that will happen," top Democratic attorney Marc Elias said on Democracy Watch, a Youtube series hosted by Brian Tyler Cohen.
The bottom line: Hasen noted that Democrats "would be smart to still do that virtual roll call by Aug. 7" to avoid any potential litigation in some states related to technical arguments around ballot access timing.
People are talking about John Eastman's goofy legal theory that argues Kamala Harris can't be president because she's not a "natural born citizen."
— The Alex Nowrasteh (@AlexNowrasteh) July 23, 2024
Many have rebutted his legal theory, but I focus on the facts he got wrong.https://t.co/OrTANm1q2v
