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Former President Donald Trump and his supporters’ attempt to violently overturn election results on January 6, 2021 was unsuccessful, but two scholars are warning that there will almost certainly be another “legal coup” attempt in this election cycle. In their latest book How to Steal a Presidential Election, authors Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman lay out the myriad ways in which Republican-dominated state legislatures can undermine the will of the majority of voters. Lessig, who is a Harvard University law professor, wrote that the threat of a second Trump term would be catastrophic, sa…

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