Category Archives: chicanery

“Texas Attorney General Sues to Stop Voter Registration Push in San Antonio”

September 5, 2024, 7:04 amchicanery, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

NYT: Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas went to court on Wednesday to try to stop county leaders in San Antonio from sending out more than 200,000 voter registration applications to unregistered residents of Bexar County. The lawsuit by Mr.… Continue reading

“‘Bigger threat’: Feds accuse Russia’s RT network in $10 million election misinformation plot”

September 4, 2024, 2:09 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

USA Today: The Justice Department charged two Russian citizens with directing a $10 million campaign to influence the 2024 election through online platforms that flooded millions of Americans with disinformation, Attorney General Me r rick Garland announced Wednesday. The… Continue reading

“Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names”

September 3, 2024, 6:48 amchicanery, lobbyingRick Hasen

Politico: A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business, according to four former employees… Continue reading

“They didn’t submit a photocopy that wasn’t required; Why abortion won’t be on the Arkansas ballot in November”

September 3, 2024, 6:43 amballot access, chicanery, direct democracyRick Hasen

I missed this from Adam Unikowsky back on Aug. 25: On August 22, 2024, the Arkansas Supreme Court held, by a 4-3 vote, that an abortion-rights ballot initiative would not appear on the 2024 ballot. Why? It’s a confusing… Continue reading

“GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes”

September 2, 2024, 7:52 amballot access, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: Across the country, a network of Republican political operatives, lawyers and their allies is trying to shape November’s election in ways that favor former President Donald Trump. Their goal is to prop up third-party candidates such as West who… Continue reading

“Voting Rights Leaders Step Up Election Initiatives After Texas Raids”

August 28, 2024, 10:18 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

NYT: Republican officials in Texas in recent days have investigated a number of Latino voting activists and political organizers as part of an election fraud inquiry, conducting a series of raids that led one group to appeal to the federal… Continue reading

“Republican Donors, Do You Know Where Your Money Goes”

August 28, 2024, 10:12 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

Juleanna Glover NYT oped: We long ago blew past any meaningful controls on political giving in American elections. Now we should focus on the rules governing political spending, which are in equally terrible shape. For that we can blame the… Continue reading

“Latino Civil Rights Group Demands Inquiry Into Texas Voter Fraud Raids”

August 26, 2024, 7:34 amchicanery, Department of Justice, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: A Latino civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to open an investigation into a series of raids conducted on Latino voting activists and political operatives as part of a sprawling voter fraud inquiry by the Texas… Continue reading

“LULAC says its members were target of latest Ken Paxton voter fraud search, calls for federal probe”

August 25, 2024, 7:01 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Houston Chronicle: The League of United Latin American Citizens is requesting a federal investigation after it said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton conducted raids of its volunteers’ homes this week, looking for evidence of possible vote harvesting. Paxton on Wednesday… Continue reading

“A close race brings fresh fears of election interference by Trump allies”

August 23, 2024, 8:18 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Also this week, election officials in at least three battleground states received nearlyidentical letters from the American Conservative Union explaining their plan to monitor ballot drop boxes and scrutinize those using them to vote. The letters prompted concerns… Continue reading

My Forthcoming Yale Law Journal Feature: “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”

August 20, 2024, 7:18 amauthoritarian threats in US, ballot access, Bush v. Gore reflections, campaign finance, cheap speech, chicanery, Constitutional Right to Vote, election administration, election law and constitutional law, Election Meltdown, election subversion risk, First Amendment theory, legislation and legislatures, political equality, political parties, political polarization, primaries, Real Right to Vote, social media and social protests, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have written this draft, forthcoming this spring in Volume 134 of the Yale Law Journal. I consider it my most important law review article (or at least the most important that I’ve written in some time). It offers… Continue reading

“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