An Election Law Expert On What He Sees In Trump’s Lawsuits

President Trump and his allies continue to attack the integrity of the vote-counting process. They have taken multiple complaints to court across several of the battleground states that have yet to be called. Some lawsuits seek process changes, while others aim to invalidate specific votes. Election law expert Rick Hasen of the University of California, Irvine joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss.

• Judy Woodruff:

  As we have heard tonight, President Trump and his allies have continued to attack the integrity of the vote-counting process, with so far unsubstantiated claims of fraud.

  In some cases, they have taken their complaints to court across several of the battleground states that have yet to be called.

  Jeffrey Brown takes a deeper look.

• Jeffrey Brown:

  Judy, the lawsuits do keep coming as late as this afternoon in Pennsylvania.

  We're going to try to bring some order to this with Rick Hasen. He's an election law professor at the University of California at Irvine, and author of the book "Election Meltdown."

  Rick, thanks for joining us.

  Do you see a pattern so far to these legal challenges? Are there — are there specific categories that you can put them into?

• Rick Hasen:

  Yes, they're pretty much small-bore cases. They're not really major cases.

  Most of them are trying to do something like get better access for Trump observers to be able to get into polling places. That might be to try to slow the vote count down in places where Trump is trying to stop a — like in Pennsylvania, a Biden win.

  There was one case of an allegation of illegal ballots being counted in Georgia, and a court found that there was no evidence for that. There have been suggestions that they're going to file suit, either for a recount in Wisconsin. They have claimed that there are non-residents voting in Nevada.

  But they haven't proposed these suits yet. And they haven't produced any evidence to support the kind of claims in these suits yet.