All posts by Dan Tokaji

Issacharoff: “Prosecuting a President – Under What Conditions Is It Warranted?”

July 10, 2023, 8:44 amUncategorizedDan Tokaji

Sam Issacharoff has this post on Just Security, identifying four factors that should be considered in making this momentous decision. Here’s the conclusion: Ultimately, for democracy’s sake, the prosecution of a former president relies on prevailing in the court of… Continue reading

“Scoop: GOP plan targets foreign dark money for 2024”

July 10, 2023, 5:48 amcampaign financeDan Tokaji

From Axios: House Republicans are working on new legislation to prevent foreign nationals from influencing America’s political process, Axios has learned. Why it matters: The last two presidential elections have been colored by allegations that foreign influence helped the GOP.… Continue reading

“Election law at the heart of Michigan voting machine investigation”

July 10, 2023, 5:31 amfraudulent fraud squad, voting technologyDan Tokaji

The Detroit Free Press has a deep dive into the state’s law on access to voting machines: At the heart of the investigation into an alleged conspiracy to seize voting machines in the wake of the 2020 presidential election lies… Continue reading

“The Case That Could Be Fox’s Next Dominion”

July 10, 2023, 5:16 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

NYT: Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert government agent incited the Jan. 6, 2021, assault… Continue reading

Guest Blogging Through July 30

July 10, 2023, 5:04 amUncategorizedDan Tokaji

As Rick noted, I’ll be doing the daily blogging for the next three weeks. Taking a few weeks at the helm of Election Law Blog is becoming an annual thing for me, and I’m grateful to him for giving… Continue reading

Over to you, Ned

July 17, 2022, 9:53 pmUncategorizedDan Tokaji

Thanks to Rick for inviting me to guest-blog the last two weeks. Always a pleasure. Ned Foley is up next, so please feel free to send him any content suggestions.

Is this the year for election-denying candidates?

July 17, 2022, 7:30 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

The Atlantic, on Mark Finchem of Arizona and others running on Trump’s Big Lie: You’d think that by now, Mark Finchem would be tired of subverting American democracy. For nearly two years, the Arizona state lawmaker has pushed Donald… Continue reading

“US election deniers promoting democracy abroad defies reason”

July 17, 2022, 7:22 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

Larry Garber and Edward McMahon in the Hill: [W]e are concerned that efforts to advance democracy abroad may be compromised by board members of publicly-funded U.S. democracy promotion organizations who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 elections. This concern… Continue reading

“No major problems with ballot drop boxes in 2020, AP finds”

July 17, 2022, 7:18 pmabsentee ballots, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

AP: “The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of… Continue reading

Bannon’s Precinct Strategy

July 17, 2022, 6:38 amcheap speech, election administration, election subversion riskDan Tokaji

For your weekend reading or listening (I won’t say pleasure): Vox’s Sean Illing has this interview with Jennifer Senior, who recently wrote an in-depth feature on Steve Bannon for the Atlantic. Here’s an especially interesting excerpt from the interview with… Continue reading

“Little-Known Lawyer Pitched Trump on Extreme Plans to Subvert Election”

July 16, 2022, 10:55 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

NYT: “The lawyer, William J. Olson, … promot[ed] several extreme ideas to the president. Mr. Olson later conceded some of them could be regarded as tantamount to declaring ‘martial law’ and could even invite comparisons with Watergate. The plan… Continue reading

“Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections”

July 16, 2022, 10:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

AP: “[T]his year’s Republican primaries … have revealed a new political strategy among numerous candidates: running on a platform that denies President Donald Trump’s defeat two years ago. As some of those candidates lose their own races, they are… Continue reading

Pildes: “It’s not just us. Western democracies are fragmenting.”

July 16, 2022, 6:12 ampolitical parties, political polarizationDan Tokaji

Rick Pildes, in the Wash Post: Three major elections on the same Sunday in June — in France, Colombia and Spain — tell the fundamental story of democracy in our era: the continuous disaffection with government, the collapse of… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for missing records”

July 16, 2022, 5:58 amelection subversion risk, legislation and legislaturesDan Tokaji

WaPo: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service on Friday requesting records after a government watchdog accused the agency of erasing texts from Jan.… Continue reading