Citizenship and the Census: it’s all about Obama
Fact check on the notion that Obama took a citizenship question off of the census.
Spoiler: nope.
Category Archives: chicanery
Hofeller’s files in North Carolina
The files from Tom
Hofeller that Rick keeps
mentioning in the context of the census case were given to advocates in North
Carolina primarily for use in a redistricting case in state court (i.e.,
not affected by the SCOTUS ruling… Continue reading
“Prosecutors unlikely to charge Trump Org executives, sources say”
Reports from CNN and The Hill on potential campaign-finance charges against executives in the Trump Organization.
FWIW, I fully believe that the sources are being accurately quoted, but I’m always pretty skeptical about underlying representations of whether prosecutions are or… Continue reading
New Yorker on the Hofeller Files and More: “A Father, A Daughter, and the Attempt to Change the Census”
Trump’s Executive Order on the Census
Hi. Please don’t consider this a preview for the coming week: most of the posts will be a lot shorter. I promise.
Until yesterday, the official government reason for getting citizenship information in connection with the decennial census was the… Continue reading
“F.E.C. Allows Security Company to Help 2020 Candidates Defend Campaigns”
NYT:
The Federal Election Commission said on Thursday that a Silicon Valley security company could immediately start helping 2020 presidential candidates defend their campaigns from the kinds of malicious email attacks that Russian hackers exploited in the 2016 election.The… Continue reading
“Trump officials warn of ‘active threats’ to US elections”
AP:
The Trump administration warned of unspecified “active threats” to U.S. elections as top security officials briefed Congress Wednesday on steps the government has taken to improve election security in the wake of Russian interference in 2016.Director of National… Continue reading
“Dems clash with Republicans over election security”
Politico:
House Democrats and Senate Republicans may have attended similar classified briefings on election security Wednesday, but they left with opposite conclusions.House Democrats expressed deep concerns about the White House’s ability to protect voting systems in 2020, drawing fresh… Continue reading
“The Shocking Final Count in the Queens District Attorney Race: What Happened”
NYT:
Almost immediately after the news broke of Ms. Katz’s breakthrough, people began speculating about more nefarious explanations.In particular, Ms. Cabán’s supporters have accused the Queens County Democratic Party, whose leaders supported Ms. Katz, of engineering the disqualification of… Continue reading
“The U.S. isn’t prepared to fend off foreign meddling in 2020. We need a national strategy”
Casey Corcoran, Bo Julie Crowley and Raina Davis LAT oped.
“‘Hide the evidence’: New Texas law may help GOP keep secrets about its redistricting strategy”
Dallas Morning News:
Texas has passed a new law that lets lawmakers conceal their emails and other communications from public scrutiny, as they prepare to redraw the state’s voting maps.The law’s Republican authors, North Texas’ Rep. Charlie Geren and… Continue reading
“Trump Consultant Is Trolling Democrats With Biden Site That Isn’t Biden’s”
NYT:
From top to bottom, the website, JoeBiden.info, breezily mocks the candidate in terms that would warm the heart of any Bernie Sanders supporter: There are GIFs of Mr. Biden touching women and girls, and blurbs about his less-than-liberal… Continue reading
President Jimmy Carter, Without Adequate Evidence, Troublingly Claims Russian Interference Changed 2016 Election Outcome to Favor Trump, Calls Trump “Illegitimate President”
Politico:
Former President Jimmy Carter questioned the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency on Thursday, saying he would likely not be in the White House if the Russians did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election.“I think a full investigation… Continue reading
Hoboken New Jersey Absentee Ballot Case Shows Why This Kind of Fraud (Unlike Impersonation Fraud) Can Happen: People Can Verify How Others Voted
From the DOJ press release:
From October 2013 through November 2013, Raia instructed Dio Braxton, Matt Calicchio, Lizaida Camis, and other conspirators who worked for his campaign, to pay certain Hoboken voters $50 if those voters applied for and… Continue reading