(This op-ed was first published in Financial Times on November 5, 2020.)

Law professor: most of the challenges appear to be ‘ill-founded and ill-fated’

Less than 12 hours after the US polls closed, Donald Trump was already threatening to challenge the results at the US Supreme Court.

Now the Republican incumbent has jumped into legal action in an attempt to salvage his chances for a second presidential term. In addition to seeking recounts in Wisconsin and possibly other states, he has filed a series of lawsuits designed to stop the tabulation of mail-in ballots and has joined a case in Pennsylvania that has already been turned back twice by the high court.

(Continue reading the op-ed on Financial Time’s page here.)

Bernadette Meyler, JD ’03, is a scholar of British and American constitutional law and of law and the humanities.  She is also a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. Her research and teaching bring together the sometimes surprisingly divided fields of legal history and law and literature.