BAN on the Vince Fong case.

The Independent: A Wisconsin senate candidate, who has been endorsed by 77-year-old Donald Trump, has suggested that nursing home residents are too old to vote, new audio has revealed. Republican Eric Hovde, 60, recently appeared on the conservative Guy Benson … Continue reading

Honored to be speaking next week: 50th Anniversary David W. Peck Lecture & Dinner April 18, 2024 Senior Peck Medal Recipient and Lecturer Professor Richard Hasen UCLA Law School “How Can We Safeguard American Democracy?” Americans are up in arms… Continue reading

Politico: Donald Trump’s effort to assemble false slates of presidential electors in 2020 may wind up shielding special counsel Jack Smith’s case from a Supreme Court ruling that could sharply narrow the obstruction law at the heart of the indictment… Continue reading

Looking forward to this online event: (free registration required) Apr 16, 2024 12:30 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join us for a Fireside Chat with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Safeguarding Democracy Project Director Rick Hasen discussing the preservation… Continue reading

WaPo: Voting in Michigan will be easier for many people this fall than it was four years ago. There will be nine days of early voting. All mail ballots will have prepaid return postage. And every community will have at… Continue reading

Release: Today, a bipartisan group led by Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel to President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration) issued “… Continue reading

NBC News reports.

Politico: If you ever doubted your vote counted, ask the Democrats running to replace California Rep. Anna Eshoo. One month and six lead changes after the March 5 primary, state lawmaker Evan Low and Santa Clara Supervisor Joe Simitian find… Continue reading

Courthouse News: A provision of New York State’s election law is “an unconstitutional infringement” on residents’ right to vote, according to a local elected official, who pleaded to a Second Circuit panel on Thursday to revive her suit challenging the… Continue reading

AJC: A Fulton County judge on Thursday refused to drop election interference charges against Donald Trump and his co-defendants saying the criminal counts did not violate their constitutional right to free speech. The former president had argued the charges against … Continue reading

NYT reports.

New report from Protect Democracy.

Jill Fisch and Jeff Schwartz have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Chicago Business Law Review). Here is the abstract; Corporations have always been involved in politics, but today is different. They are publicly taking positions, either directly… Continue reading