Category Archives: chicanery

“America’s election chiefs are worried AI is coming for them”

March 11, 2024, 7:16 amcheap speech, chicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: A false call from a secretary of state telling poll workers they aren’t needed on Election Day. A fake video of a state election director shredding ballots before they’re counted. An email sent to a county… Continue reading

“Prosecutors Charge Man With Firing Shots Outside the Capitol on Jan. 6”

March 9, 2024, 11:57 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: A Trump supporter who prosecutors say fired a pistol into the air on the grounds of the Capitol as a mob stormed the building on Jan. 6, 2021, was charged on Friday with firearm offenses, trespassing and interfering with… Continue reading

“Mark Harris is GOP’s 8th District nominee six years after election fraud prompted do-over”

March 6, 2024, 12:58 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Charlotte Observer: Mark Harris on Tuesday won the Republican nomination in North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District six years after a ballot-harvesting scandal resulted in an election do-over…. Political operative McCrae Dowless, who worked for Harris in his campaign for NC’s… Continue reading

Must-read NYT: “Trump’s Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls”

March 3, 2024, 11:34 amchicanery, voter registrationRick Hasen

NYT: A network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald J. Trump is quietly challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presidential battleground states, an all-but-unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a close or contentious election. Calling themselves… Continue reading

“The US is bracing for complex, fast-moving threats to elections this year, FBI director warns”

February 29, 2024, 7:40 amcampaigns, cheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP: The United States expects to face fast-moving threats to American elections this year as artificial intelligence and other technological advances have made interference and meddling easier than before, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday. “The U.S. has confronted foreign… Continue reading

“Law School clinic files brief to combat intentionally false statements about voting”

February 28, 2024, 7:46 amcheap speech, chicanery, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

Yale Daily News: Yale Law School’s Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed an amicus brief on Feb. 12 in United States v. Mackey, a case currently at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The case involves an influential… Continue reading

“Bridgeport voters try again to pick mayor after 1st election tossed due to absentee ballot scandal”

February 27, 2024, 7:28 amabsentee ballots, chicaneryRick Hasen

AP reports.

“Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators”

February 26, 2024, 10:33 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “Assembly leaders concede Michael Gableman violated records laws during fruitless 2020 election review”

February 24, 2024, 7:16 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:’ Assembly officials have admitted former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman violated public records laws while taxpayers paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars to probe the 2020 election — an investigation that did not turn … Continue reading

“Court battle reveals effort to undermine No Labels presidential bid”

February 23, 2024, 7:30 amchicanery, third partiesRick Hasen

WaPo: Political operatives opposed to No Labels’ potential 2024 presidential ticket took over the NoLabels.com domain last year and purchased Google search ads aimed at spreading the misleading claim that the group supported former president Donald Trump and other right-wing… Continue reading

“At worst [Douglas Mackey’s tweets containing false information about how to vote] were calculated to cause voters to send futile text messages and then stay home on election day.”

February 21, 2024, 7:30 amchicanery, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

Pretty remarkable statement in Douglas Mackey’s reply brief in his criminal appeal before the Second Circuit. To me, the “at worst” it seems pretty bad! As a reminder, Protect Democracy and the Yale Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic filed … Continue reading

“Supreme Court allows sanctions against Trump-allied lawyers over 2020 election lawsuit”

February 20, 2024, 10:51 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NBC News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals brought by Trump-allied lawyers who faced legal sanctions for baselessly alleging in court that the 2020 election in Michigan was fraudulently won by President Joe Biden. By rejecting the appeals, the… Continue reading

Yale Law Journal Forum Collection: State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli

February 17, 2024, 6:37 ambribery, chicaneryRick Hasen

This looks like it will be very useful: FORUM What Are Federal Corruption Prosecutions for? Lauren M. Ouziel This Essay considers the role of prosecutors in the Supreme Court’s decades-long contraction of public corruption law. It examines how federal prosecutors’… Continue reading

In Trump Immunity Case at SCOTUS, Alabama and 21 States Ask for Stay Because of “Speculation,” “True or Not” That Trump Election Subversion Prosecution “was Calculated to Silence or Imprison President Biden’s Political Rival”

February 16, 2024, 3:32 pmchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Shameless: The sudden urgency has invited public speculation that this case has an improper purpose—to influence the 2024 election. Amici States represent millions of Americans, many of whom worry that the timing of this prosecution was calculated to silence or… Continue reading

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