In this sixteenth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry & Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: If the election happened in modern America, was the election of Lord Commander Jon Snow legitimate?
Our analysis this week includes:
- Learned Hands returns to the Night’s Watch for the first time in a WHOLE YEAR, since our very first episode!
- Everyone makes very fucking measured and balanced arguments about the Electoral College, the 2020 Election, and Rudy Guiliani
- Just kidding.
- As per usual, Clint shoehorns Natural Rights philosophers into a completely unrelated discussion.
- Merry goes Full Kornacki.
- So many absurd and frankly offensively bad accents.
- Your hosts dig in on the similarities between the Night’s Watch electoral procedures and the American constitutional doctrine of One Person One Vote.
- Deep details about the way Nights Watch elections do and perhaps should work.
- Merry side-eyes the fuck outta Sam Tarly and defends Stannis Baratheon.
- I guess you could say things get weird.
Supplemental reading:
- Election Contests and Disputes
- State and Federal Election Contests: An Overview
- Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Political Thicket | Radiolab
- California Code, Elections Code - ELEC § 16100 | FindLaw
- Reynolds v. Sims
- Baker v. Carr
- A Decision That Cannot Be Defended on Shelby County v. Holder (2013).
- Right-wing trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman charged with felony voter intimidation | Salon.com
Extensive editing by LittleWolfBird. Bumpers by Dolorous Ray. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
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