All posts by Rick Hasen

My New Piece in Politico: “Opinion: The 2024 Election Will Be Fair. People Still Won’t Believe It.”

January 25, 2024, 7:31 amelection subversion risk, Real Right to Vote, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Politico. A snippet: The current backdrop for the 2024 election may seem bleak: Many of those who helped to ensure a fair election and a peaceful transition of power in 2020 have been silenced,… Continue reading

“Trump leans into voter fraud playbook, preparing to cry foul if he loses expected Biden rematch”

January 25, 2024, 7:23 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: For months, Trump has been alleging that he could be the victim of fraud in November, making the same sort of explosive, groundless allegations that fueled the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and have continued to… Continue reading

“‘Betrayal’: Arizona GOP Chair Jeff DeWit resigns after recording of ‘offer’ to Kari Lake”

January 25, 2024, 7:21 ambribery, chicaneryRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Jeff DeWit, a former Arizona treasurer and Trump adviser, resigned as chair of the state GOP on Wednesday following the release of an audio recording in which he offered Kari Lake a lucrative job if she quits her… Continue reading

“Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders”

January 25, 2024, 7:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

New report from the Brennan Center: Among the report’s findings: 43% of state legislators have experienced threats within the past three years. 18% of local officeholders have experienced threats within the past year and a half. (p. 4) Because of abuse, 39% of local officeholders and 21% of state legislators are less… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with Ryan Reilly, Author of Sedition Hunters

January 24, 2024, 5:55 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Latest conversation for the Safeguarding Democracy Project’s webinar series:

March 20 Virtual Event: “The Missing Constitutional Right”

January 24, 2024, 5:52 pmReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

Brennan Center: The right to vote is one of the foundations of democracy, yet in the United States, it has never truly been available to all. Generations have seen different versions of the same conflict: disenfranchised groups of people… Continue reading

Feb 8-9 Event: “The Promise and Limits of State Constitutions”

January 24, 2024, 5:48 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Brennan Center: For much of the past century, the U.S. Supreme Court was the primary guardian of civil rights and liberties. In many areas the Court is now backing away from that role, and legal scholars and citizens alike are… Continue reading

“As Supreme Court weighs Trump’s eligibility, the ‘10th justice’ stays mum”

January 24, 2024, 5:46 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Politico: As the Supreme Court prepares to hold arguments next month on Donald Trump’s eligibility to run for president, there’s one viewpoint it hasn’t heard: the Biden administration’s. In most high-stakes cases with serious implications for the federal government, the… Continue reading

Feb. 1 Voting Rights Symposium at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota

January 24, 2024, 5:41 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Looks like some good panels here.

“A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure”

January 24, 2024, 10:22 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Maxwell Palmer, Benjamin Schneer and Kevin DeLuca in Political Analysis. Abstract: Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering, but they all require either bipartisan consensus or the agreement of both parties on the… Continue reading

“Trump: The Political Threats Will Stop … When You Agree With My Lies”

January 24, 2024, 10:21 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Rolling Stone: AT THE START of this election year, Donald Trump spoke of “bedlam” breaking out if criminal prosecutions prevent him from retaking the White House. But the chaos the former president is threatening isn’t an abstraction. It’s already… Continue reading

“Full Appeals Court Spurns Request by Trump to End Gag Order in Election Case”

January 24, 2024, 7:33 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The full federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday rejected former President Donald J. Trump’s bid to lift a gag order imposed on him in the criminal case in which he stands accused of trying to subvert the results… Continue reading

“Most N.H. GOP primary voters say Trump fit for presidency even if convicted”

January 24, 2024, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Early exit polling in New Hampshire shows just how much former president Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 election — and his continued accusations about the legal cases against him being politically based — have taken root in his… Continue reading

“Conservative Appeals Judges Question Felon Voting Ban Claims”

January 24, 2024, 7:28 amfelon votingRick Hasen

Bloomberg Law: Conservatives on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seemed skeptical of ruling for convicted felons seeking to declare a lifetime voting ban in Mississippi cruel and unusual punishment under the US Constitution. Republican appointees on… Continue reading