Category Archives: chicanery
“Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators”
CNN:
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in… Continue reading
Wisconsin: “Assembly leaders concede Michael Gableman violated records laws during fruitless 2020 election review”
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:’
Assembly officials have admitted former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman violated public records laws while taxpayers paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars to probe the 2020 election — an investigation that did not turn … Continue reading
“Court battle reveals effort to undermine No Labels presidential bid”
WaPo:
Political operatives opposed to No Labels’ potential 2024 presidential ticket took over the NoLabels.com domain last year and purchased Google search ads aimed at spreading the misleading claim that the group supported former president Donald Trump and other right-wing… Continue reading
“At worst [Douglas Mackey’s tweets containing false information about how to vote] were calculated to cause voters to send futile text messages and then stay home on election day.”
Pretty remarkable statement in Douglas Mackey’s reply brief in his criminal appeal before the Second Circuit. To me, the “at worst” it seems pretty bad!
As a reminder, Protect Democracy and the Yale Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed … Continue reading
“Supreme Court allows sanctions against Trump-allied lawyers over 2020 election lawsuit”
NBC News:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals brought by Trump-allied lawyers who faced legal sanctions for baselessly alleging in court that the 2020 election in Michigan was fraudulently won by President Joe Biden.
By rejecting the appeals, the… Continue reading
Yale Law Journal Forum Collection: State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli
This looks like it will be very useful:
FORUM
What Are Federal Corruption Prosecutions for?
Lauren M. Ouziel
This Essay considers the role of prosecutors in the Supreme Court’s decades-long contraction of public corruption law. It examines how federal prosecutors’… Continue reading
In Trump Immunity Case at SCOTUS, Alabama and 21 States Ask for Stay Because of “Speculation,” “True or Not” That Trump Election Subversion Prosecution “was Calculated to Silence or Imprison President Biden’s Political Rival”
Shameless:
The sudden urgency has invited public speculation that this case has an improper purpose—to influence the 2024 election. Amici States represent millions of Americans, many of whom worry that the timing of this prosecution was calculated to silence or… Continue reading
“New York hush money case will be first Trump criminal trial, scheduled for March”
WaPo:
A judge said Thursday that jury selection for Donald Trump’s trial would begin on March 25, setting a date with history for what would be the first criminal prosecution of an ex-president — one who also leads the Republican… Continue reading
“Election Denial Can’t Overcome Election Certification Protections”
Lauren Miller:
Election certification has long been an unfamiliar term to most Americans, and for good reason. Certification, the statutory process by which officials sign off on the accuracy and completion of election results, usually serves as an important but… Continue reading
Our Amicus Brief in United States v. Mackey: Lying About When, Where or How People Vote Violates Federal Law (18 USC 241) and Prosecution is Consistent with the First Amendment
Protect Democracy and the Yale Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed this Second Circuit amicus brief (with me as client and co-counsel) in United States v. Mackey. Mackey was convicted “under 18 U.S.C. § 241 for conspiring “to use… Continue reading
“Georgia Lt. Gov. Jones accused of seeking election server access in 2020”
AJC:
Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones allegedly sought access to election computers in Butts County after the 2020 election, an effort that, if successful, would have been illegal, according to emails among state election officials that were shown in court… Continue reading
“Trump ally emerged from shadows to deal blow to Ga. case against former president”
WaPo deep dive on Mike Roman.
“A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning”
CNN:
Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the election.
And if that wasn’t… Continue reading