The second impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump has been underway in the U.S. Senate this week, focused on the January 6th altercation that interrupted the counting of electoral college votes from the 2020 presidential election.

The trial centers around whether Trump incited that crowd to violence, but before the breach of the capitol itself were claims that massive fraud had stolen the election from the former president and his supporters. But is that true?

Associate Professor Benjamin Cover of the University of Idaho College of Law discusses the electoral vote count and all of the surrounding constitutional claims and legal arguments.