All posts by Rick Hasen
Will Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate Randall Terry, on the Constitution Party’s Ballot Line in at Least 12 States, Be a Factor in 2024?
With so much attention focused on RFK Jr., Cornell West, etc., don’t sleep on this news, via Ballot Access news.
If ever there was an election year to move to ranked choice voting for President so that third party… Continue reading
“Georgia’s election integrity laws could create ‘hovering threat’ for poll workers in 2024”
USA Today:
In Georgia, in particular, a series of election rules passed over the last three years threaten to overburden election officials and, in some cases, issue criminal penalties against them. New election measures passed by the Republican-led state… Continue reading
Thanks to Ned Foley
…for serving as primary ELB blogger these last few weeks.
I’ll be blogging this week, then we will start another rotation of folks next week.
Top New York Election Lawyers Cannot Recall Anyone Ever Prosecuted for the NY Election Law Being Used to Try to Turn Trump’s Hush Money Payments into a Felony
Business Insider confirms what I suspected:
Now, Manhattan prosecutors now say an old, rarely used section of the state election law is their favorite on the menu of potential underlying crimes.
“As the court is aware, falsifying business records in… Continue reading
Rick Hasen on CNN’s The Lead With Jake Tapper Discussing Fake Electors and Trump Immunity Claim (Video)
You can watch here:
Rick Hasen’s Live Blog of the Supreme Court’s Oral Argument Over Trump’s Claim of Immunity in the Federal Election Subversion Case (Updates completed)
[This post has been updated.]
After a couple of hours of oral argument, it appears that the Supreme Court is unlikely to embrace either Donald Trump’s extreme position—that would seem to give immunity for a president who ordered an assassination… Continue reading
“Trump is a co-conspirator in Michigan’s 2020 false electors plot, state investigator says”
Detroit News:
Michigan prosecutors consider former President Donald Trump and some of his top aides co-conspirators in the plot to submit a certificate falsely claiming he won Michigan’s 2020 election, an investigator for Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office testified Wednesday… Continue reading
On Thursday Morning, I Will Be Live-Blogging the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments in the Trump Immunity Case Over the (Real) Election Interference Charges Against Him
Tune in here at ELB.
Foreign Affairs Reviews “A Real Right to Vote” and the Lessig/Seligman Book
Why It Matters Legally Whether We Conceive of the Trump Case as One of “Election Interference”
Jed Handelsman Shugerman in NYT oped:
About a year ago, when Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, indicted former President Donald Trump, I was critical of the case and called it an embarrassment. I thought an array of legal problems… Continue reading
“As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters”
WaPo:
After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns,Meta is breaking up with politics. The company has decreased the visibility of politics-focused posts and accounts on Facebook and Instagram as well as imposed… Continue reading
“Supreme Court declines to decide if vote-by-mail restrictions discriminate in some states”
USA Today:
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide if states that automatically let senior citizens vote by mail must let younger voters do the same, an issue that could affect millions of voters…..
Seven states – Texas, Indiana,… Continue reading
“Back into the FIRE: Hasen’s response to FIRE and Rohde: Don’t read the press clause out of the Constitution — First Amendment News 420”
I have written this reply, as Ron Collins explains:
It all started when I noticed an SSRN post of a forthcoming essay by Richard Hasen. In it, the UCLA School of Law professor took exception to some of what… Continue reading