Category Archives: chicanery

“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

“Signatures of Florida voters whose registration changed to Republican different than prior samples”

February 22, 2022, 6:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WUSF: Signatures of some voters in apartment buildings and high-rise towers in South Florida whose registration was changed to Republican appeared noticeably different than on paperwork those same voters signed earlier, according to a new review of voting… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Republicans seek to jail more officials as part of their review of the 2020 presidential election”

February 18, 2022, 4:45 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Patrick Marley for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Republicans sought Friday to jail the chairwoman of the state Elections Commission, Racine’s mayor and other officials as part of their months-long review of the 2020 presidential election.The court filing marked the… Continue reading

“Kevin McCarthy Backs Liz Cheney’s Challenger, Escalating a Party Feud”

February 18, 2022, 7:21 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, on Thursday endorsed Representative Liz Cheney’s G.O.P. rival for Wyoming’s sole congressional seat, taking the unusual step of intervening in a party primary to oust a onetime ally who has become the… Continue reading

“Texting Through an Insurrection”

February 16, 2022, 7:15 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: These and thousands of other frantic, ephemeral text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together the most vivid and comprehensive picture to date of the events surrounding the chaos… Continue reading

“John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators”

February 14, 2022, 10:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators, citing attorney client or attorney work-product… Continue reading

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