Category Archives: chicanery

“Project Veritas Withdraws Lawsuit Against The New York Times”

July 29, 2025, 8:25 amcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The conservative group Project Veritas this week dropped its yearslong libel lawsuit against The New York Times. The lawsuit accused The Times of defamation for an article published in 2020 that reported that researchers from Stanford University and… Continue reading

Ballot Stuffing in Brooklyn?

July 26, 2025, 9:00 amchicaneryDan Tokaji

From the NYT, reports of what sounds like old-fashioned election fraud in a GOP city council primary: The New York City Board of Elections asked prosecutors on Friday to investigate possible ballot stuffing and votes being cast by dead… Continue reading

Trump’s False and Malicious Claims That Former President Obama Engaged in “Treason” in Connection with the 2016 and 2020 Elections Merits Mention Only on Page A17 of the NY Times and Is Barely a Blip Elsewhere

July 24, 2025, 11:27 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Displaying a willingness to weaponize the federal government in ways that were as novel as they were audacious, he took on a wide variety of individuals and institutions — from law firms and universities to journalists and federal bureaucrats… Continue reading

“Kenneth Chesebro and the Ethics of Election Subversion”

July 22, 2025, 8:57 amchicanery, election law bizRick Hasen

Sung Hui Kim has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the role of attorney Kenneth Chesebro in orchestrating the “fake electors plot” following the 2020 U.S. presidential election. It traces Chesebro’s transformation from a… Continue reading

“Lawyer Who Pushed Bogus Trump Elector Scheme Is Disbarred in New York”

June 26, 2025, 10:26 pmchicanerydemocratic backsliding, January 6, The Big LieJustin Levitt

The NYT gets this headline right. Based on his part in the scheme for fake electors to submit fraudulent returns in 2020 — one of the few schemes NOT involving a municipal election — Kenneth Chesebro is no longer… Continue reading

“Delaware County borough official sentenced for attempt to steal mayoral election”

June 26, 2025, 10:25 pmchicaneryelection fraud, local electionsJustin Levitt

The Pennsylvania Capital-Star covers the sentence, delivered to the final co-conspirator of a scheme to submit fraudulent write-in votes in a 2021 municipal election. (These sorts of schemes are rare, but when they do occur, they’re almost always in local… Continue reading

“Former postal carrier gets 5 years for ballot theft scheme”

June 25, 2025, 10:04 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadThe Big LieJustin Levitt

From Colorado Public Radio: A Mesa County woman who was a part of a scheme to steal ballots ahead of the 2024 election was sentenced to 5 years in the department of corrections, Wednesday. , , , At the… Continue reading

“Bachenberg agrees to pay $500,000 to settle voting machine audit lawsuit”

June 23, 2025, 12:40 pmchicanery2020 Election Conspiracies, The Big LieJustin Levitt

Armchair Lehigh Valley and The Morning Call have a report on some of the latest in 2020 fallout: A prominent Lehigh Valley Republican and major supporter of President Trump has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that… Continue reading

Former NJ Senator Menendez Starts 11 year Sentence for Corruption

June 17, 2025, 9:00 amchicanery, ethics investigationscorruption, MenendezTabatha Abu El-Haj

The N.Y. Times has a long profile of Robert Menendez, the former Senator from New Jersey, who is scheduled to start his federal prison sentence for corruption today.

“Mike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left”

June 16, 2025, 2:56 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Scarcely 24 hours after a Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota was assassinated in her home, Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, posted a pair of politically charged messages mocking the attack. “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their… Continue reading

“Eastman disbarment recommended by State Bar Court’s Review Department; California Supreme Court is next”

June 16, 2025, 12:32 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

At the Lectern: On Friday, the California State Bar Court’s three-judge Review Department came to the same conclusion as a hearing judge over a year ago and recommended the disbarment of President Trump’s former lawyer, John Eastman. (98-page decision and… Continue reading

“Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine”

June 16, 2025, 7:48 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: In the past three months alone, a man set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s residence while Mr. Shapiro and his family were asleep inside; another man gunned down a pair of workers from the Israeli Embassy outside an event… Continue reading

My Statement: Thoughts on the Despicable Assassination (and Attempted Assassination) of Minnesota Legislators, the Rise in Political Violence in the United States, and the Threats to Free and Fair Elections

June 14, 2025, 12:18 pmauthoritarian threats in US, chicaneryRick Hasen

Violence directed at innocent people is abhorrent and political violence even more so because it is an attack not just on people but on the institution of democracy itself and an attempt to change government not through elections but through… Continue reading