In this sixteenth episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Maester Merry & Clint from Laws of Ice and Fire ask: If the election happened in modern America, was the election of Lord Commander Jon Snow legitimate?

Our analysis this week includes:

  • Learned Hands returns to the Night’s Watch for the first time in a WHOLE YEAR, since our very first episode!
  • Everyone makes very fucking measured and balanced arguments about the Electoral College, the 2020 Election, and Rudy Guiliani 
  • Just kidding.
  • As per usual, Clint shoehorns Natural Rights philosophers into a completely unrelated discussion.
  • Merry goes Full Kornacki. 
  • So many absurd and frankly offensively bad accents.
  • Your hosts dig in on the similarities between the Night’s Watch electoral procedures and the American constitutional doctrine of One Person One Vote.
  • Deep details about the way Nights Watch elections do and perhaps should work.
  • Merry side-eyes the fuck outta Sam Tarly and defends Stannis Baratheon. 
  • I guess you could say things get weird.

Supplemental reading: 

Extensive editing by LittleWolfBird. Bumpers by Dolorous Ray. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY. 

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