All posts by Rick Hasen
In Trump Immunity Case at SCOTUS, Alabama and 21 States Ask for Stay Because of “Speculation,” “True or Not” That Trump Election Subversion Prosecution “was Calculated to Silence or Imprison President Biden’s Political Rival”
Shameless:
The sudden urgency has invited public speculation that this case has an improper purpose—to influence the 2024 election. Amici States represent millions of Americans, many of whom worry that the timing of this prosecution was calculated to silence or… Continue reading
“2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence”
NYT:
More than three years after a swirl of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the originators of many of the false allegations are now being forced to… Continue reading
“Multiple Threats Converge to Heighten Disinformation Risks to This Year’s US Elections”
Lawrence Norden, Mekela Panditharatne, and David Harris at Just Security.
Protect Democracy SCOTUS Brief: It is Against the Public Interest to Stay Trump’s Election Subversion Trial; It Denies Voters Relevant Information About His Actions in 2020
From the brief:
While defendant Trump no doubt hopes that this Court will grant him the absolute immunity from legal accountability he has long sought, his primary strategy is to delay the trial until after the 2024 election for the… Continue reading
“Trial Will Test Trump’s Limits of Reaping Political Gain From Legal Woes”
NYT:
For all their bluster, nobody in Donald J. Trump’s political inner circle actually thinks a criminal conviction will help him with the independent voters and suburban women who lost him the presidency in 2020.
But since Mr. Trump was… Continue reading
Feb. 21 Event: “Has Citizens United Undermined Democracy?”
This event in Chicago looks great.
ELB Book Corner: Ann Southworth: “Some Implications”
I am pleased to welcome Ann Southworth to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (Chicago). The discount code for ELB readers is BIGMONEY2023. This is the final… Continue reading
I Spoke to the New Books Network About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”
You can listen here.
“A Redistricting Surprise in New York: A Map That Plays Few Favorites”
NYT:
When New York’s top court ordered the state to redraw its congressional map late last year, the state’s ruling Democrats were widely expected to exploit the opening to aggressively reshape district lines in their favor.
But on Thursday, a… Continue reading
“D.A. Denies Improper Relationship With Special Trump Prosecutor”
NYT:
A case charging former President Donald J. Trump and his allies with trying to subvert the 2020 election results in Georgia took a detour on Thursday into the details of the prosecutors’ romantic and financial lives — their sleeping… Continue reading
New “Election Science Task Force” Convened by Union of Concerned Scientists
“Ariz. Republican who stood up to Trump after 2020 won’t seek reelection”
WaPo:
After years of violent threats and harassment for accepting the results of the 2020 election in Arizona’s largest county of Maricopa, the Republican who led the Board of Supervisors during the last presidential election said Thursday that he will… Continue reading
Special Counsel Urges Supreme Court to Reject Trump Stay Request to Delay “Election Subversion” Trial on Immunity Grounds, Especially Because It Involves Election Subversion
This footnote in Jack Smith’s filing is particularly interesting and important:
A sufficient basis for resolving this case would be that, whatever the rule in other contexts not presented here, no immunity attaches to a President’s commission of federal crimes… Continue reading