Category Archives: chicanery

“US intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns”

August 19, 2024, 4:22 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

AP: U.S. intelligence officials said Monday they were confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American… Continue reading

“George Santos Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Identity Theft”

August 19, 2024, 1:34 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman from New York whose penchant for lying led to one of the oddest sideshows in modern U.S. politics, pleaded guilty on Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. While Mr. Santos’s… Continue reading

“Republicans are central in an effort to rescue Cornel West’s ballot hopes in Arizona”

August 19, 2024, 7:38 amballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: A group of lawyers with deep ties to the Republican Party scrambled over the weekend to rescue an effort to get independent presidential candidate Cornel West on the Arizona ballot, offering one of the clearest examples yet of the… Continue reading

“How Texas election officials are dealing with a flood of challenges to voter registrations”

August 19, 2024, 7:25 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationRick Hasen

Votebeat: County election departments across Texas are trying to reassure voters amid a flood of formal challenges questioning whether their registrations are valid. The challenges, filed by conservative groups and individual activists, seek to remove tens of thousands of voters… Continue reading

“Her name was on a filing agreeing to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What’s an elector?”

August 17, 2024, 10:39 amballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: When Denisha Mitchell was asked why she filled out paperwork to serve as an Arizona elector for the independent presidential candidate Cornel West, her first response was “What?!” Her second: What’s an elector? “I was shocked and surprised… Continue reading

“Foreign TikTok Networks Are Pushing Political Lies to Americans”

August 9, 2024, 1:08 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

Revelatory WSJ report: Intelligence officials have warned that the 2024 presidential contest could face an unprecedented flood of fake news, fueled by AI, from foreign actors. A Journal analysis of videos on TikTok has found it’s already happening. Amid… Continue reading

Quick Update: “Supreme Court rejects Missouri’s long-shot bid to block Trump’s gag order and sentencing in hush money case”

August 5, 2024, 2:38 pmchicaneryTabatha Abu El-Haj

NBC News essentially reports that the Supreme Court functioned as a proper Court–rejecting a political stunt masked as a legal claim.

Director of National Intelligence on Iranian Influence Efforts

July 10, 2024, 4:41 amcheap speech, chicaneryDan Tokaji

From yesterday’s statement by Avril Haines: The Intelligence Community recognizes the importance of informing the public of foreign efforts to influence our democratic processes and, consequently, leading into the Presidential and congressional elections this year, we are launching today the… Continue reading

“Let’s apply Trump v. United States to Watergate’s facts. It’s not pretty.”

July 4, 2024, 3:47 pmchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy analysis.

Wisconsin: “Police in Glendale remove election observers for being disruptive while objecting to ballots”

July 4, 2024, 3:45 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Election observers showed up at several polling locations in the Milwaukee area Tuesday, and two of them were removed by police in Glendale for being disruptive while objecting to absentee ballots, Glendale Mayor Bryan Kennedy said. Glendale… Continue reading

“Paid operatives linked to a GOP firm are helping Cornel West in Arizona”

July 1, 2024, 6:32 amballot access, chicanery, third partiesRick Hasen

NBC News: A dozen paid operatives registered with Arizona’s secretary of state on Sunday to collect signatures on behalf of left-wing presidential candidate Cornel West, listing their employer as a Republican-leaning firm that recently worked for GOP House candidate Blake… Continue reading

“Supreme Court Ruling Reflects Challenges of Jan. 6 Prosecutions”

June 28, 2024, 4:37 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Alan Feuer NYT analysis: The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday that prosecutors had misused an obstruction law in charging hundreds of rioters who attacked the Capitol is the latest example of the persistent challenges the Justice Department has faced in… Continue reading

“Allegations of Democratic Voter fraud and Support for Political Violence Among Republicans”

June 28, 2024, 4:31 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

James A. Piazza in American Politics Research: Are partisans more likely to endorse political violence when politicians accuse their rivals of election improprieties? I theorize that for Republican partisans in the United States, the answer to this question is… Continue reading

My New One at Slate: “That Big Jan. 6 Supreme Court Decision Is Not the Win for Trump People Think It Is”

June 28, 2024, 10:25 amchicanery, election subversion risk, statutory interpretation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: In Fischer v. United States, a divided Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, handed Donald Trump a political victory by saying the government overreached in prosecuting some… Continue reading

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