Category Archives: chicanery

“New evidence shows Trump was told many times there was no voter fraud — but he kept saying it anyway”

March 4, 2022, 7:31 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign for reelection.In the weeks that followed, multiple top… Continue reading

“There’s no legal way to decertify the 2020 election, but the Gableman report is forcing Republican candidates to confront the question”

March 3, 2022, 11:17 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A long-awaited report from a former Supreme Court justice hired by Assembly Republicans to review the 2020 election sought to give legitimacy to a legally debunked idea the same lawmakers have been trying stomp out for… Continue reading

“Georgia’s race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender”

March 3, 2022, 11:07 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: There has never been evidence to support that claim. No major or widespread issues with the 2020 election were uncovered anywhere in the United States, and paper ballots in Georgia were recounted multiple times, including… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump”

March 3, 2022, 7:13 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit… Continue reading

“First Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack”

March 3, 2022, 6:47 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep President Biden from taking office.Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Ala., pleaded guilty in… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results”

March 2, 2022, 3:00 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol is expected to submit a court filing Wednesday laying out new details about the effort by conservative lawyer John Eastman to persuade Vice President Pence… Continue reading

“‘Multiple’ Jan. 6 calls between Trump and lawyer on Texas election lawsuit, panel reveals”

March 1, 2022, 2:31 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Congressional investigators say former President Donald Trump had “multiple phone calls” on Jan. 6, 2021 with an attorney who represented Texas in its lawsuit to overturn the election.The revelation that Trump had spoken repeatedly with Kurt Olsen amid… Continue reading

“John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar”

March 1, 2022, 2:12 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

LAT: Orange County attorney John Eastman is at the center of an ethics investigation into whether he violated laws while advising President Trump on how he could overturn his election defeat in 2020, the State Bar of California said… Continue reading

“Gableman report to Wisconsin Republicans promotes legally debunked effort to decertify 2020 election”

March 1, 2022, 2:07 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The attorney who led a monthslong review of the 2020 election for Wisconsin Republicans called on lawmakers Tuesday to dissolve the state’s election agency and urged them to consider decertifying the results — a move that… Continue reading

Former AG Barr, in New Book, Tries to Have It Both Ways on Responsibility for Jan. 6 Insurrection

February 27, 2022, 7:45 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

From WaPo’s report on the book: Barr takes particular aim at those who had the president’s ear — including former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who Barr says will be remembered as “the man who helped President Trump get… Continue reading

“Text and History Demonstrate Cawthorn Can’t Evade Accountability for January 6”

February 24, 2022, 8:21 amchicaneryRick Hasen

CAC: On January 6, 2021, a crowd of thousands violently breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to disrupt congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results. This unprecedented attack resulted in five deaths, at least 140 assaults,… Continue reading

Arizona: “Attorney for secretary of state tells judge AG Brnovich is abusing his powers”

February 24, 2022, 6:54 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Tuscon.com: Attorney General Mark Brnovich is abusing his powers in threats to prosecute and possibly imprison Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, an attorney for her told a judge on Wednesday.Roopali Desai said the decision by Hobbs to take down… Continue reading

Anti-Democracy Harvard Law Review Tweet was Just a Joke, Says Author of Student Note and Article Arguing Against American Democracy

February 23, 2022, 8:42 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Balls and Strikes: Against this purported historical backdrop, the author argues that judges should adopt a more “hands-off approach” to modern conflicts over state laws that affect voting rights, which are characterized as “partisan bickering” that courts are ill-suited… Continue reading

Major NYT Magazine Story on Justice Thomas and His Wife Ginni Thomas Highlights Ginni Thomas’s Active Role in January 6-Related Activities

February 22, 2022, 6:49 amchicanery, election subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?” Shared in the days after the 2020 presidential election, it urged the members of an influential if secretive right-wing group to contact legislators in three… Continue reading

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