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Lisa Manheim, a law professor at the University of Washington, said it’s unlikely that either impeachment or the invoking of the 25th Amendment would happen before Jan. 20.

For months, the platforms have been warned about the potential real-world dangers, such as political violence, that could occur when falsehoods about an election are amplified on social media, said Ryan Calo, a cyber law professor at the University of Washington.

Hugh Spitzer explains what our nation’s founding document has to say about the 25th Amendment and impeachment.

Lisa Marshall Manheim is an Associate Professor of law at the University of Washington Law School and spoke to ABC NewsRadio’s Sarah Hall.

Lisa Marshall Manheim, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington, said the call has prompted discussion in legal circles about whether Trump committed a crime by pressuring the Georgia officials. “At best, the president’s call is contemptuous of the process,” Manheim said. “Regardless of whether it’s technically a criminal offense, it is entirely inappropriate.”

After weeks of fighting an election outcome he doesn't like, President Trump is running out of time. But the danger to American democracy will stick around even after President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in. Guest: Lisa Marshall Manheim, Â鶹ÉçÇø law professor and co-author of "The Limits of Presidential Power: A Citizen's Guide to the Law"

While Klippert believes using an electoral college is the best way for an equitable election, it’s not likely to survive a legal challenge, said Hugh Spitzer a University of Washington professor with a 35-year history in state and municipal law.

The combined variables make it far more difficult and costly to get out of subscriptions. It's not a deceptive practice, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who studies manipulation in digital markets, because merchants usually aren't misrepresenting that customers will be charged monthly. But the fact that a practice isn't deceptive doesn't mean it's fair.

"In this election, we saw judges of all political persuasions refuse to abandon the rule of law," said Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the University of Â鶹ÉçÇø of Law. "This basic commitment should hold. But we can't expect our courts to solve all our political problems. They simply aren't designed for that."

Peter Nicolas, the William L. Dwyer Chair in Law at the University of Washington, agrees that Coney Barret’s history and a more conservative Supreme Court could see some rights and protections for LGBTQ+ people eroded by arguments for religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws, but says sweeping overturns of rights like LGBTQ+ marriage are unlikely.

Hugh Spitzer, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in state and local governments, said he’s not surprised Reykdal would feel constrained by his role.

“The lawsuit has so many fundamental flaws that it’s hard to know where to start. It misstates basic principles of election law and demands a remedy that is both unconstitutional and unavailable,” Lisa Marshall Manheim, a law professor at the University of Washington, wrote in an email. “At core, it’s an incoherent amalgamation of claims that already failed in the lower courts.”

“Texas does not have standing in federal court to vindicate the voting rights of other states’ voters — much less standing to undercut the rights of those voters,” Lisa Marshall Manheim, a professor at the University of Washington Law School, wrote in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.

“It seems to me that it’s incumbent upon those who are behind these efforts to show evidence that they’re having some effect,” says Ryan Calo, law professor and a director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington. “So far, I’ve personally been unconvinced that there’s been any kind of significant showing of efficacy.”

It's not just judges that are rejecting Rudy Giuliani's arguments. A bipartisan group of over 1,500 lawyers have signed an open letter addressed to the American Bar Association, saying Trump's lawyers need to be held accountable.

Hugh Spitzer, professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, talks about why he signed a letter calling out the activities of President Trump's lawyers after the election.

Â鶹ÉçÇø law school professor Lisa Manheim, who is teaching the election law class, says there are “80 students and counting” signed up.

Experts say Paxton’s lawsuit recycles flimsy allegations of irregularities from challenges that have already failed. For instance, University of Â鶹ÉçÇø of Law professor Lisa Marshall Manheim argued in the Washington Post of Paxton’s case that “it is an uninspired retread of the many state-level claims that already have imploded since Nov. 3. Texas has simply delivered these defective claims in an even worse package.”

Lisa Marshall Manheim, associate professor at the University of Â鶹ÉçÇø of Law, wrote in the Washington Post that “the litigation is legally incoherent, factually untethered, and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process,” predicting that it will fail.

The lawsuit, which is based on voter fraud allegations that lower courts have repeatedly rejected, has been widely derided by legal experts, who have deemed it “laughable,” “utter garbage” and, in the words of University of Washington law professor Lisa Marshall Manheim, “legally incoherent, factually untethered and based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process.”

“At core, Texas is recycling legal claims that have already failed, but through a lawsuit that suffers from a whole host of additional procedural problems,” said Lisa Marshall Manheim, constitutional and election law professor at University of Â鶹ÉçÇø of Law in Seattle.

The Supreme Court is sure to reject this latest attempt to overturn the election.

“I like to see the evidence,” Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington’s School of Law, said. “What’s the evidence that something’s working? And I’ve yet to really see that with digital contact tracing.”

The coronavirus vaccine could start becoming available within weeks. Could employers in Washington require their employees to get a vaccine for the coronavirus? Steve Calandrillo, professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is interviewed.

Since it launched on Monday, more than 700,000 Washington residents have installed or activated the WA Notify app. But even as the rate of adoption climbs, will the exposure notification app make a difference? Ryan Calo, professor of law at the Â鶹ÉçÇø, is quoted.