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One assumption that many of us had about the 2020 US presidential election is that, at some point, it would end. This may have been overly optimistic; after all, in many ways — and certainly in this column — the 2016 US presidential election never really ended. We spent four (productive!) years discussing the degree to which foreign interference, particularly on social platforms, had affected the outcome. I imagine we’ll continue discussing it for some time to come.
But if the past election was litigated ad infinitum in columns, this one will be litigated first in courts. President *****’s legal team has rolled out various challenges in the battleground states in which he is behind, and Republicans are backing those challenges with…