Category Archives: chicanery

“Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls”

March 29, 2022, 7:10 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Bob Woodward and Robert Costa: Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of… Continue reading

“Ohio Republicans discussing impeachment of Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor after map ruling”

March 18, 2022, 11:19 amchicanery, redistrictingRick Hasen

Columbus Dispatch: House Republicans are discussing whether to impeach Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a third set of legislative maps and effectively ended all hope of a full May 3rd primary.The court struck down… Continue reading

“Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote Where He Did Not Reside?”

March 6, 2022, 9:27 amchicaneryRick Hasen

The New Yorker: Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt D’s, a sandwich shop in Highlands. He later sold the restaurant and started a real-estate company with a line… Continue reading

“Pressure on Justice Dept. as Jan. 6 Panel Lays Out Case Against Trump”

March 4, 2022, 7:41 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The Justice Department is facing mounting pressure to prosecute former President Donald J. Trump after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack laid out its argument for a potential criminal case on Wednesday night, placing Attorney General… Continue reading

“New evidence shows Trump was told many times there was no voter fraud — but he kept saying it anyway”

March 4, 2022, 7:31 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign for reelection.In the weeks that followed, multiple top… Continue reading

“There’s no legal way to decertify the 2020 election, but the Gableman report is forcing Republican candidates to confront the question”

March 3, 2022, 11:17 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: A long-awaited report from a former Supreme Court justice hired by Assembly Republicans to review the 2020 election sought to give legitimacy to a legally debunked idea the same lawmakers have been trying stomp out for… Continue reading

“Georgia’s race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender”

March 3, 2022, 11:07 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: There has never been evidence to support that claim. No major or widespread issues with the 2020 election were uncovered anywhere in the United States, and paper ballots in Georgia were recounted multiple times, including… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump”

March 3, 2022, 7:13 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit… Continue reading

“First Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack”

March 3, 2022, 6:47 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep President Biden from taking office.Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Ala., pleaded guilty in… Continue reading

“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

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