Category Archives: chicanery

“Text and History Demonstrate Cawthorn Can’t Evade Accountability for January 6”

February 24, 2022, 8:21 amchicaneryRick Hasen

CAC: On January 6, 2021, a crowd of thousands violently breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to disrupt congressional certification of the 2020 presidential election results. This unprecedented attack resulted in five deaths, at least 140 assaults,… Continue reading

Arizona: “Attorney for secretary of state tells judge AG Brnovich is abusing his powers”

February 24, 2022, 6:54 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Tuscon.com: Attorney General Mark Brnovich is abusing his powers in threats to prosecute and possibly imprison Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, an attorney for her told a judge on Wednesday.Roopali Desai said the decision by Hobbs to take down… Continue reading

Anti-Democracy Harvard Law Review Tweet was Just a Joke, Says Author of Student Note and Article Arguing Against American Democracy

February 23, 2022, 8:42 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Balls and Strikes: Against this purported historical backdrop, the author argues that judges should adopt a more “hands-off approach” to modern conflicts over state laws that affect voting rights, which are characterized as “partisan bickering” that courts are ill-suited… Continue reading

Major NYT Magazine Story on Justice Thomas and His Wife Ginni Thomas Highlights Ginni Thomas’s Active Role in January 6-Related Activities

February 22, 2022, 6:49 amchicanery, election subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?” Shared in the days after the 2020 presidential election, it urged the members of an influential if secretive right-wing group to contact legislators in three… Continue reading

“Signatures of Florida voters whose registration changed to Republican different than prior samples”

February 22, 2022, 6:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WUSF: Signatures of some voters in apartment buildings and high-rise towers in South Florida whose registration was changed to Republican appeared noticeably different than on paperwork those same voters signed earlier, according to a new review of voting… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Republicans seek to jail more officials as part of their review of the 2020 presidential election”

February 18, 2022, 4:45 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Patrick Marley for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Republicans sought Friday to jail the chairwoman of the state Elections Commission, Racine’s mayor and other officials as part of their months-long review of the 2020 presidential election.The court filing marked the… Continue reading

“Kevin McCarthy Backs Liz Cheney’s Challenger, Escalating a Party Feud”

February 18, 2022, 7:21 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, on Thursday endorsed Representative Liz Cheney’s G.O.P. rival for Wyoming’s sole congressional seat, taking the unusual step of intervening in a party primary to oust a onetime ally who has become the… Continue reading

“Texting Through an Insurrection”

February 16, 2022, 7:15 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: These and thousands of other frantic, ephemeral text messages that might have otherwise been lost to history are now key to piecing together the most vivid and comprehensive picture to date of the events surrounding the chaos… Continue reading

“John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators”

February 14, 2022, 10:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators, citing attorney client or attorney work-product… Continue reading

“Giuliani asked Michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to Trump team”

February 9, 2022, 9:15 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team, the… Continue reading

Must-Read Michael Wines NYT Story on North Carolina Redistricting Battle Suggests Republican Legislature Could Try to Impeach Democratic State Supreme Court Justices to Stop Effort to Thwart Gerrymandering

January 29, 2022, 11:08 amchicanery, judicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

This would be ugly even by North Carolina standards.

AJC Must-Read: “Secret report finds flaw in Georgia voting system, but state shows no interest”

January 26, 2022, 6:57 amchicanery, election administration, voting technologyRick Hasen

Mark Niesse for the AJC: A confidential report alleges that hackers could flip votes if they gained access to Georgia’s touchscreens, drawing interest from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Louisiana election officials and Fox News.One key agency hasn’t asked… Continue reading

“Former Pa. Treasurer Barbara Hafer’s PAC collected $2.3 million from investments, paid daughter $500K since she left office”

January 26, 2022, 6:41 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

Nice work if you can get it dep’t: In the 17 years since Barbara Hafer served in elected office, she’s all but disappeared from Pennsylvania politics.A Republican elected four times to statewide office, she was never again on a ballot… Continue reading

Georgia: “Fulton judges greenlight special grand jury for Trump probe”

January 25, 2022, 6:59 amchicaneryRick Hasen

AJC: The judges on Fulton County’s Superior Court bench on Monday cleared the way for a special grand jury to be used for District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020… Continue reading

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