Category Archives: election subversion risk

My New One at Slate: “The Collins-Manchin Election Bill Is a Deal Democrats Should Grab”

July 25, 2022, 7:33 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: Last week’s announcement by a bipartisan group of senators proposing reforms to the poorly written 1887 law that governs Congress’ counting of the Electoral College votes is a good half-loaf measure… Continue reading

Is this the year for election-denying candidates?

July 17, 2022, 7:30 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

The Atlantic, on Mark Finchem of Arizona and others running on Trump’s Big Lie: You’d think that by now, Mark Finchem would be tired of subverting American democracy. For nearly two years, the Arizona state lawmaker has pushed Donald… Continue reading

“US election deniers promoting democracy abroad defies reason”

July 17, 2022, 7:22 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

Larry Garber and Edward McMahon in the Hill: [W]e are concerned that efforts to advance democracy abroad may be compromised by board members of publicly-funded U.S. democracy promotion organizations who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 elections. This concern… Continue reading

Bannon’s Precinct Strategy

July 17, 2022, 6:38 amcheap speech, election administration, election subversion riskDan Tokaji

For your weekend reading or listening (I won’t say pleasure): Vox’s Sean Illing has this interview with Jennifer Senior, who recently wrote an in-depth feature on Steve Bannon for the Atlantic. Here’s an especially interesting excerpt from the interview with… Continue reading

“Little-Known Lawyer Pitched Trump on Extreme Plans to Subvert Election”

July 16, 2022, 10:55 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

NYT: “The lawyer, William J. Olson, … promot[ed] several extreme ideas to the president. Mr. Olson later conceded some of them could be regarded as tantamount to declaring ‘martial law’ and could even invite comparisons with Watergate. The plan… Continue reading

“Parroting Trump, GOP primary losers cast doubt on elections”

July 16, 2022, 10:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadDan Tokaji

AP: “[T]his year’s Republican primaries … have revealed a new political strategy among numerous candidates: running on a platform that denies President Donald Trump’s defeat two years ago. As some of those candidates lose their own races, they are… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Secret Service for missing records”

July 16, 2022, 5:58 amelection subversion risk, legislation and legislaturesDan Tokaji

WaPo: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service on Friday requesting records after a government watchdog accused the agency of erasing texts from Jan.… Continue reading

Erie Postmaster’s Defamation Case against Project Veritas for False Reports of Election Fraud Allowed to Proceed

July 16, 2022, 5:51 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

From the introduction to the order denying the motion to dismiss in Weisenbach v. Project Veritas: Project Veritas is a non-profit media organization founded by James O’Keefe, III. On November 5, 2020, just two days after the November 3, 2020,… Continue reading

“Trump campaign operative who delivered Jan. 6 false elector lists is identified”

July 16, 2022, 5:32 amelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

Politico: A little-known Donald Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors to Capitol Hill in a bid to get them to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to two people familiar with the episode.Mike Roman,… Continue reading

“If Ron DeSantis is Actually Less Dangerous Than Trump, Maybe He Should Say So”

July 15, 2022, 12:57 pmelection subversion riskDan Tokaji

Tim Miller in The Bulwark, on whether Gov. DeSantis does or doesn’t present the same threat to democracy as our last President: “what has struck me about this debate is less the hypotheticals than what is missing from it:… Continue reading

“How Announcing His 2024 Campaign Could Be Trump’s Best Legal Defense”

July 15, 2022, 12:47 pmelection subversion risk, UncategorizedDan Tokaji

Interesting perspective from Ankush Khardori in Politico Magazine: [I]t has been clear for quite some time that a reelection bid would be one of Trump’s most potent legal defense strategies, both against the ongoing criminal investigation in Georgia stemming… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Committee Considers Seeking Testimony From Donald Trump, Mike Pence”

July 15, 2022, 5:49 amelection subversion risk, legislation and legislaturesDan Tokaji

WSJ: “Members of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol are discussing the next steps in their investigation, including whether to seek an interview with former Vice President Mike Pence and potentially… Continue reading

“We have reached the apex of election-fraud debunking”

July 15, 2022, 5:16 amelection subversion risk, Supreme CourtDan Tokaji

Philip Bump in WaPo, on the report issued yesterday by eight prominent conservatives, including Ted Olson, Ben Ginsberg, Michael McConnell, and Judge Luttig: [M]illions of people believe that the election was stolen. So how might they be dissuaded? Perhaps… Continue reading

“Trump uses Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on ballot drop boxes to re-stoke baseless arguments about the 2020 election”

July 14, 2022, 4:36 amelection subversion risk, UncategorizedDan Tokaji

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on the former President’s reaction to the decision in Teigen v. Wisconsin Election Commission: “To Trump, whose election loss was cemented when he lost Wisconsin, Friday’s ruling by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court means… Continue reading