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Hurricane Matthew Could Have Devastating Consequences for the Election, Slate, October 6, 2016

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Republicans Are Not Attacking Democracy, The Atlantic, August 8, 2016

What If Trump Drops Out?, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2016

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Slam of Trump Does the Nation No Favors, Reuters Opinion, July 13, 2016

Could Lack of Money Be Trump's Downfall?, CNN Opinion, June 21, 2016

Campaign-Finance Law, the State of Nature, and the Nirvana Fallacy, Library of Law and Liberty, June 7, 2016

Will Democrats Try to Beat Trump by Discouraging Conservative Voters?, Talking Points Memo, May 23, 2016

Bob McDonnell Ruling Will Not Legalize Corruption, National Law Journal, May 12, 2016

The Supreme Court’s Next Big Fight Over Money in Politics, The Atlantic, May 7, 2016

Sanders Calls Clinton’s Fundraising ‘Obscene,’ But It is More Nuanced—Influence Isn’t Corruption, Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2016

Campaign Finance’s Creeping Deregulation, RegBlog, April 20, 2016

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Corporations May Be Progressive, But That Still Doesn't Make Them People, Reuters Opinion, April 6, 2016

Garland is No Sure Bet on Overturning Citizens United, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March 21, 2016

The Hard Power of 'Soft' Voter-ID Laws, The Atlantic, March 14, 2016

Appoint a Few More Scalias, Kiss Democracy Goodbye, Reuters Opinion, February 22, 2016

The Battle Over Replacing Justice Scalia is Just the Start of a War Over the Supreme Court, Washington Post, WonkBlog, February 15, 2016

How Scalia’s Death Could Shake Up Campaign Finance; It might be the opening reformers have been waiting for, Politico, February 14, 2016

Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS manages to make it even harder to find the dark money in U.S. politic, Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2016

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How to End American Plutocracy, NY Daily News, Jan. 12, 2016

Do We Need a Constitutional Convention on Campaign Finance?, LA Times, Jan. 5, 2016

Bush v. Gore in 2000: Partisans still in charge, Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 11, 2015

Justices will get no satisfaction with a new ‘one person, one vote’ rule, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 8, 2015

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Ideology, Partisanship, and the New One Person, One Vote Case, SCOTUSBlog, Jul. 31, 2015

A Court of One: Anthony Kennedy, LA Times, Jun. 30, 2015

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After Scalia: The Future of United States Election Law, America-Ho (in Japanese, forthcoming 2016)

Softening Voter ID Laws Through Litigation: Is it Enough?, 2016 Wisconsin Law Review Forward 100 (2016)

Election Law’s Path in the Roberts Court’s First Decade: A Sharp Right Turn But with Speed Bumps and Surprising Twists, 68 Stanford Law Review 1597 (2016)

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Celebrity Justice: Supreme Court Edition, 19 Green Bag 2d 157 (Winter 2016)

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When is Uniformity of People, Not Counties, Appropriate in Election Administration? The Cases of Early and Sunday Voting", 2015 University of Chicago Legal Forum 193 (2015)

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Response: Conscious Congressional Overriding of the Supreme Court, Gridlock, and Partisan Politics, 93 Texas Law Review See Also 263 (2015) (with Jim Buatti)

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About Rick Hasen

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Disclosure: My role in some litigation/election issues

I am consulting in Nevada Ethics Commission v. Carrigan

I am one of the lawyers for the City of San Diego in the Thalheimer campaign contributions challenge

The pro bono brief I've filed in the Crawford (Indiana voter identification case) in the Supreme Court

The pro bono amicus brief of Richard Briffault and Rick Hasen in the Wisconsin Right to Life case in the Supreme Court

My pro bono amicus letter in 9th Circuit supporting defendants' request for rehearing in Padilla v. Lever

I am consulting for the California Nurses Association on their campaign finance initiative (Proposition 89) (see also Yes on 89)

I do some consulting work with Horvitz & Levy, LLP

My pro bono amicus letter in 9th Circuit supporting plaintiffs in Monterey initiative case

My motion to file amicus brief/amicus brief supporting appellants in the ACLU punch card recall case

United States Supreme Court amicus brief that I wrote for the Center for Governmental Studies in the BCRA case

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