Category Archives: chicanery

“You Can Now Read the GBI’s Coffee Co. Report in Full” and Not Everyone is Happy

November 3, 2023, 4:07 pmchicanery, voting technologyRick Hasen

Over at Lawfare. Response from the Coalition for Good Governance: CGG and its legal and voting system security advisors are extremely disappointed in the quality of the report, because of its lack of depth, delayed timing, accuracy and limited scope.… Continue reading

Allegations of Foreign Money Flowing into NYC Mayor Eric Adams 2021 Mayoral Race

November 2, 2023, 2:18 pmcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday searched the Brooklyn home of Mayor Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser, Brianna Suggs, a campaign consultant who is deeply entwined with efforts to advance the mayor’s agenda, according to two people… Continue reading

“Judge orders new Bridgeport mayoral primary after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing”

November 2, 2023, 8:20 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

NBC Connecticut: A state judge has taken the unusual step of ordering a new Democratic mayoral primary in Connecticut’s largest city to be held after the Nov. 7 general election is completed. The decision comes after surveillance videos showed a… Continue reading

“GBI report provides new details in Coffee County elections breach”

November 1, 2023, 11:48 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AJC: When Fulton County prosecutors announced racketeering charges against Donald Trump and 18 others in August, they said a data breach in Coffee County was part of their alleged criminal enterprise to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. But they weren’t the… Continue reading

“Prosecutors are focused on a rural Georgia county in Trump’s 2020 election case. Here’s why”

November 1, 2023, 7:06 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

LA Times: They were running out of time and needed a Hail Mary. Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election. And with less than three weeks before Congress was set to certify the results… Continue reading

“Prosecutors Withdraw Second Subpoena in Trump Fund-Raising Inquiry”

October 27, 2023, 6:51 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from former President Donald J. Trump’s 2020 campaign as part of their investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s political and fund-raising operations committed any crimes as he sought to stay in… Continue reading

“N.J. council president ‘personally collected ballots’ in local voting fraud scheme, AG says”

October 26, 2023, 7:43 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

NJ.com: The sitting president of the Paterson City Council, already under indictment in a 2020 election fraud probe, faces new charges after state authorities say they uncovered evidence that he “personally collected ballots” in violation of New Jersey election… Continue reading

“Ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows granted immunity, tells special counsel he warned Trump about 2020 claims: Sources”

October 24, 2023, 2:16 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

ABC News: Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only… Continue reading

“Why Did Sidney Powell Plead Guilty?”

October 23, 2023, 7:37 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

New Yorker: In rural Coffee County, Georgia, three and a half hours southeast of Atlanta, at least a few employees of the election office agreed. After a recount of Georgia’s votes was completed, on December 4th, the county’s elections supervisor,… Continue reading

“From Bush v. Gore to ‘Stop the Steal’: Kenneth Chesebro’s Long, Strange Trip”

October 21, 2023, 1:18 pmchicaneryJanuary 6, The Big LieTabatha Abu El-Haj

N.Y. Times has an in-depth profile of Kenneth Chesebro. “Some former colleagues say Mr. Chesebro’s 180-degree turn came after a lucrative 2014 investment in Bitcoin and a subsequent posh, itinerant lifestyle. Others, like Mr. Tribe, see Mr. Chesebro as a… Continue reading

“Kenneth Chesebro: Second Trump lawyer pleads guilty to conspiracy”

October 20, 2023, 10:30 amchicanery, Election Meltdown2020 Election Conspiracies, Trump indictmentTabatha Abu El-Haj

BBC News: Kenneth Chesebro, a former Trump lawyer, has pled guilty in the Georgia case. “Kenneth Chesebro is the third of 19 co-defendants to plead guilty in a deal with Fulton County prosecutors.” His plea follows Sidney Powell’s which… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with Genevieve Lakier and Eugene Volokh on “The Trump Prosecutions, the First Amendment, and Election Inteference”

October 19, 2023, 3:35 pmchicanery, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

An interesting and spirited conversation for the Safeguarding Democracy Project’s webinar series. Watch:

Superseding Indictment Charges Senator Menendez with Conspiracy to Act as Foreign Agent

October 12, 2023, 9:45 ambribery, chicaneryRick Hasen

Serious.

“Cenk Uygur running for president as Democrat” Despite Being Born in Turkey and Therefore Not Qualified

October 11, 2023, 6:08 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

Oh man: Uygur was born in Istanbul, and immigrated to the United States from Turkey in 1978, but believed that the Constitution’s “natural born citizen” clause wouldn’t disqualify him from running. The issue would end up in the Supreme Court,… Continue reading

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