All posts by Rick Hasen

“Different Futures For Pennsylvania Elections Collide in November’s Supreme Court Race”

September 15, 2023, 8:40 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Bolts: In a decision that landed days before the 2022 midterms, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered elections officials not to count any mail ballots on which a voter had forgotten to include a date or scribbled an incorrect one, even… Continue reading

“Financial Implications of Rising Political Risk in the US”

September 15, 2023, 7:56 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.

“‘Where’s Celia?’ An Arizona elections official becomes the target of a virtual manhunt by GOP activists on a public records crusade.”

September 15, 2023, 6:56 amchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Jen Fifield for Votebeat: They started searching for her in late January. “Where’s CELIA NABOR?” one member of the angry online mob wrote. “Find her,” another wrote. Track her phone, credit cards, social security number, and social media, others… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace on Our “24 for ’24” Report on Fair and Legitimate Elections in 2024

September 14, 2023, 4:19 pmelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

You can watch the clip here. You can also read the new report: 24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 Elections. Here’s a shorter, clickable part of the MSNBC video.

Wisconsin: “Senate Republicans fire elections chief, setting the stage for a legal fight heading into the 2024 elections”

September 14, 2023, 2:54 pmThe Voting WarsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Fueled by lingering outrage over the 2020 election within the Wisconsin GOP, Senate Republicans voted Thursday to fire the state’s top election official — a move that catapulted Wisconsin’s election agency into a legal battle over who oversees… Continue reading

“It’s not up to secretaries of state like me to keep Trump off the ballot”

September 14, 2023, 2:38 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jocelyn Benson WaPo oped: Is it up to secretaries of state to determine whether Donald Trump can ever serve in elective office again? That seems to be the nearly universal view of those who say the former president is disqualified… Continue reading

Ming-Sung Kuo: Law, Institution, and Constitutional Time in Politics As Markets

September 14, 2023, 8:42 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Ming-Sung Kuo, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium. A View from an Outsider When Politics As Markets (PAM) was published in 1998, I was a law clerk with the… Continue reading

“‘You’re screwed’: Romney’s exit threatens a collapse of Senate’s middle”

September 14, 2023, 7:54 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: “If Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema follow the Utahn out the door, they’ll leave a void in a chamber that’s handed Joe Biden remarkable bipartisan deals.”

“Fulton judge splits Fulton Trump defendants into two groups”

September 14, 2023, 7:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

AJC: The Fulton County judge overseeing the sprawling election interference probe involving former President Donald Trump on Thursday split the case’s 19 defendants into two groups for trial — and suggested that more divisions could be merited. Superior Court Judge… Continue reading

David Levine: “Countering the Distortion of Election Administrator Errors”

September 13, 2023, 3:30 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from David Levine: On September 1, Harris County, Texas’ two-year-old elections department was eliminated after the Texas Legislature passed legislation earlier this year abolishing it and the State Supreme Court refused to stop the… Continue reading

Sounds Like Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Gableman’s Testimony at John Eastman’s California Disbarment Trial Did Not Go Well

September 13, 2023, 3:27 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

LA Times: Cross-examining Gableman last week in Eastman’s trial, Duncan Carling, an attorney representing the California State Bar, asked Gableman if there had been any successful legal challenges to the CTCL grants. “Not yet,” Gableman replied. Was he aware of… Continue reading

“NC’s top judicial official is behind ‘political hit job,’ Democrats say”

September 13, 2023, 1:41 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WRAL: North Carolina’s highest-ranking judicial official is personally behind the push for an investigation into a fellow justice, a state lawmaker claimed Wednesday, calling it a politically motivated attack. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls was recently put under investigation, WRAL… Continue reading

Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh: Politics as Markets in Germany

September 13, 2023, 9:02 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Niels Petersen and Emanuel V. Towfigh, part of the Politics as Markets at 25 symposium: Politics as Markets by Professors Samuel Issacharoff and Rick Pildes is a seminal, path-breaking piece of scholarship… Continue reading