I Spoke with Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance for Their Podcast on Legal Issues Surrounding the Biden Withdrawal
You can listen here. It was a great conversation.
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My New Forthcoming Article: “Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule”
I have written this draft article, forthcoming in the Review of Litigation festschrift for Doug Laycock. Here is the abstract:
This article is written for a festschrift honoring the scholarship of Professor Douglas Laycock. In his most important work in the… Continue reading
Must-Read from Justin Levitt: “Get Ready for the Scourge of Election Season: Electoral-Process Porn”
Provocative Justin Levitt piece at Slate:
You’ve seen the long-form think pieces, ominous and lurid and anxiety-producing. With titles like “How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election,” they offer a revealing glimpse into a pocket of underrecognized… Continue reading
Speaking in Sacramento on July 24: “Loser’s Consent: Holding a Fair and Legitimate 2024 Election”
Looking forward to speaking this Wednesday at the UC Center, Sacramento:
“Loser’s Consent: Holding a Fair and Legitimate 2024 Election”
Wed, Jul 24, 2024 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm
1115 11th Street, Sacramento and by Zoom webinar
Professor Richard Hasen, Professor… Continue reading
“Kamala Harris Replacing Joe Biden Is Not Antidemocratic; Hey Republicans, No Coup for You”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
With news of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race, some Republicans are claiming he cannot be removed from the presidential ballot in November and in any case it is… Continue reading
I Spoke with the PBS News Hour About Legal Issues Surrounding the Biden Withdrawal (Link to Video)
You can watch at this link.
Thanks to Dan Tokaji; Spencer Overton Blogging Weeks of July 22 and July 29; Tabatha Abu El-Haj Blogging Week of August 5
Great thanks to Dan for stepping in these last few weeks. Great job as always. Certainly not the lazy days of summer around here!
Spencer Overton steps into the chair for two weeks, July 22-August 4.
Then Tabatha Abu El-Haj … Continue reading
“The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times”
I was pleased to contribute a chapter to this project from the Knight First Amendment Institute:
“The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times,” piloted by the Institute’s 2023-2024 Senior Visiting Research Scholars RonNell Andersen … Continue reading
The Free 2024 Supplement to Lowenstein, Hasen, Tokaji, and Stephanopoulos, Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th Edition) is Now Available
You can download the free Supplement here. The Supplement is current through the Supreme Court’s October 2023 term ending July 2, 2024, and it includes edited versions of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in Moore v. Harper and Trump… Continue reading
Is Ohio Ballot Access Deadline a Reason for Democrats to Push through a Virtual Roll Call Vote Before the Convention to Choose Joe Biden? Almost Certainly Not
After a warning from the Ohio Secretary of State that the Democrats’ late convention would come too late to notify Ohio to put its nominee on the ballot, Democrats decided to hold a virtual roll call vote early before the… Continue reading
Dangerous Times: Trump Chooses Election Denier JD Vance as VP Nominee
NYT on JD Vance:
Election denial: He has not committed to accepting the results of this year’s election. “If we have a free and fair election, I will accept the results,” he said on CNN in May. It’s a caveat… Continue reading
2024 Supplements to Laycock and Hasen, Modern American Remedies 5th Edition, and to Concise 5th Edition, Now Available for Free Download
You can find the 2024 Teachers’ Update to Laycock & Hasen, Modern American Remedies (5th edition) at this link.
You can find the Teachers’ Update to the Concise 5th Edition at this link.
Highlights:
Current through the end of… Continue reading
Introduction to: Richard L. Hasen, “States a Bulwarks Against, or Potential Facilitators of, Election Subversion” (in new Zelizer and Greenberg book)
In a couple of weeks, NYU Press will release Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (Julian E. Zelizer & Karen J. Greenberg eds. NYU Press 2024). It’s an impressive and important collection that I’m glad… Continue reading
Watch Archived Video of Supreme Court Term in Review Event Featuring Cary Franklin, Justin Levitt, Eugene Volokh, and Kimberly West-Faulcon (I Moderated) at Hammer Museum
This was a deep and provocative discussion, co-sponsored by the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law. Watch.