Dems Plan to Defend the Midterms? A Legal Expert Says It's Not Enough.

Senate Democrats have been running tabletop exercises — war-gaming scenarios where armed federal agents show up at polling places, or ballots get confiscated in close races. It sounds like serious preparation. Constitutional law professor Kim Wehle (The Little Law School) joins Matt to explain why she doesn't think it's nearly enough — and to zoom out to the bigger question of whether anyone, anywhere, is doing enough to push back on the Trump administration.

Kim is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Associate Independent Counsel in the Whitewater investigation, and author of Pardon Power, How to Read the Constitution—and Why, and What You Need to Know About Voting—and Why. She and Matt dig into the real mechanics of the Democrats' election-defense strategy, a provocative state-level prosecution theory making the rounds, and what the Supreme Court's pattern this term actually tells us — including the still-pending birthright citizenship ruling.

Topics include:

Inside Senate Democrats' legal strategy to defend the 2026 midterms from interference — and why it may fall short

A state-prosecution theory modeled on how the Five Families were taken down — built from the bottom up against officials who broke state law

Tish James, Fani Willis, and what happened to the state AGs who already tried

The Supreme Court's pattern this term — agency removal power, narrowed injunctions, and what's left to decide

What's actually at stake in the still-pending birthright citizenship case (Trump v. Barbara)

"What do we do now that it's here" — the practical version of that question

Kim Wehle's Substack, The Little Law School

Worth Knowing with Matt Robison

Worth Knowing on YouTube

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