“Pa. Supreme Court angrily sanctions county for violating order on Dominion voting machines”

April 19, 2023, 11:09 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday said Fulton County had blatantly defied the court when it allowed a third-party company to access its 2020 voting machines. The county had first given a firm access to its Dominion voting… Continue reading

“Why It’s Fine that Fox and Dominion Settled; Murdoch testimony would have been more fun to watch than Succession. But the trial wouldn’t have fixed the bigger problem.”

April 19, 2023, 7:43 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: What does the Fox (News) say? Not enough to save American democracy. But we never should have expected that a private defamation suit could have cured this country’s ongoing election panic… Continue reading

“Another Texas Election Official Quits After Threats From Trump Supporters”

April 19, 2023, 7:39 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Heider Garcia, the head of elections in Tarrant County, Texas, announced this week that he would resign after facing death threats, joining other beleaguered election officials across the nation who have quit under similar circumstances. Mr. Garcia oversees elections… Continue reading

“UPDATED: Fulton prosecutors offered immunity deals to some GOP electors”

April 19, 2023, 7:34 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AJC: The Fulton County District Attorney’s office has offered immunity deals to some of the alternate GOP electors who met at the Georgia Capitol and cast phony Electoral College votes for Donald Trump following the 2020 election. In a… Continue reading

“‘You talk to people that you may never talk to:’ Ranked choice voting can elevate our political campaigns, Gehrke writes”

April 19, 2023, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Salt Lake Tribune column.

Supreme Court’s developing Compact Clause jurisprudence may affect National Popular Vote

April 18, 2023, 3:38 pmelectoral collegeDerek Muller

Years ago, as a law student (!), I published a piece in the Election Law Journal on the Compact Clause and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. I wrote a follow-up there, too. In these pieces, I argued… Continue reading

Texas: “Tarrant County’s celebrated elections chief resigns, citing differences with new county executive”

April 18, 2023, 8:07 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: A North Texas elections official who was lauded by top state officials — and his critics — as one of the best administrators in the field has submitted his resignation. Heider Garcia, who has been the elections director in… Continue reading

“As Fox News case heads to trial, far right St. Louis site faces its own defamation suit; A trial is scheduled for May 9 in St. Louis in a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit”

April 18, 2023, 7:32 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Missouri Independent: They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. Both were election workers in Atlanta, and that was the day Rudy… Continue reading

“No consequences so far after Trump supporters copied Georgia election data”

April 18, 2023, 7:28 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Mark Niesse for AJC: Caught by surveillance video, text messages and emails, overwhelming evidence shows that supporters of then-President Donald Trump copied Georgia’s statewide voting software from an election office in rural Coffee County in early 2021. Yet no… Continue reading

“Trump team prepares to fight efforts to block him from ballots over Jan. 6”

April 18, 2023, 7:24 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Donald Trump’s campaign team is preparing for a state-by-state legal battle later this year over untested claims that a Civil War-era clause in the U.S. Constitution bars the former president from appearing on Republican primary ballots because of his… Continue reading

“Trump calls on Rupert Murdoch to back false 2020 election fraud claims ahead of Dominion trial”

April 18, 2023, 7:21 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

USA Today: Former President Donald Trump on Monday called on Rupert Murdoch to back false information about the 2020 presidential election ahead of the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems has pursued against Fox News and its parent company. Trump on… Continue reading

Dan Backer Behind FEC Complaint Against Marc Elias Claiming DCCC Submitted False Expenditures to His Firm for “Recount Services”

April 18, 2023, 7:18 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Exclusive to Fox News, of course. I’ll be quite surprised if this amounts to anything.

“Testing Political Antitrust”

April 17, 2023, 11:12 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Sepehr Shahshahani and Nolan McCarty have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, NYU Law Review). Here is the abstract: Observers fear that large corporations have amassed too much political power. The central fact that animates this concern is growing economic… Continue reading

“Nikki Haley’s fuzzy fundraising math”

April 17, 2023, 7:52 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

Politico: When Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign announced its first quarterly fundraising haul earlier this month, the figure sounded impressive. The former U.N. ambassador’s campaign said it had raised $11 million between her mid-February launch and the end of the quarter… Continue reading

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