Category Archives: election subversion risk

My New Essay Posted in the Harvard Law Review Forum: “Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States”

April 20, 2022, 7:55 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The Harvard Law Review Forum has posted my new Essay, Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States (see also this more readable version). Here is the Introduction: The United States… Continue reading

“Fearing a Trump Repeat, Jan. 6 Panel Considers Changes to Insurrection Act”

April 20, 2022, 7:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, some of President Donald J. Trump’s most extreme allies and members of right-wing militia groups urged him to use his power as commander in chief to unleash the… Continue reading

“Trump-Aligned Sheriffs Target Election Officials”

April 19, 2022, 3:25 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Bolts: Unlike lawyers, judges, and legislators, county sheriffs have extensive powers to investigate any allegations, seize documents and voting machines and, if they deem necessary, use force or threats of force to gain compliance. In many regions, especially more rural areas… Continue reading

“Opinion | The Other Way Trump Could Steal the White House in 2024”

April 19, 2022, 3:14 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Scott Anderson oped in Politico: Congress is right to address vulnerabilities in our election process. But reformers can’t simply fight the last war if they truly want to protect the presidency. When counting the results of the 2024 presidential… Continue reading

“Eastman shielding 37,000 pages of Trump-related email from Jan. 6 committee”

April 19, 2022, 7:33 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman revealed Monday that he has asserted attorney-client privilege on 37,000 pages of emails related to his work for then-President Donald Trump in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The Jan. 6 select… Continue reading

“Fighting Trump, Dems launch plan to elect thousands of local election supervisors”

April 18, 2022, 6:55 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: A Democratic candidate recruiting group is pitching donors on an ambitious three-year program to find, train and support 5,000 candidates for local offices in charge of election administration, a sprawling national effort intended to fight subversion of future… Continue reading

“Lawmakers worry 2020 will provide a blueprint for stealing a future election”

April 17, 2022, 4:08 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

NBC News: Congress is trying to strengthen the law, though with little to show for its work. For much of the past year, Democratic lawmakers who control both houses focused instead on broader election reform aimed at expanding… Continue reading

“Trump’s Focus on 2020 Election Splits Michigan Republicans”

April 17, 2022, 4:06 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The shouting in the banquet hall erupted just minutes after the Macomb County Republican Party convention was called to order.In a room packed with about 500 people, Mark Forton, the county party chairman and a fierce ally of… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: ‘We need ammo. We need fraud examples. We need it this weekend.’ What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election.”

April 15, 2022, 6:47 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Panel Presses Stephen Miller on Whether Trump Sought to Incite Crowd”

April 15, 2022, 6:36 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol spent roughly eight hours on Thursday questioning Stephen Miller, a top White House adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, in an at times contentious exchange that included… Continue reading

“Zealous lawyer or coup architect? The legal theorist behind Jan. 6.”

April 15, 2022, 6:33 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CSM deep dive into whether John Eastman should face trouble with the CA Bar.

New Book Reports Mitch McConnell Knew of Trump’s Plan to Subvert the 2020 Election in December, But Said Nothing Because of Fear of Losing Georgia Senate Runoffs

April 13, 2022, 11:59 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: In the weeks after he lost the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump had a plan to stay in office — and he wanted Mitch McConnell to know about it.If Trump could successfully pressure Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to … Continue reading

“New efforts seek to build trust in elections, in the face of a still-thriving 2020 election denier community”

April 13, 2022, 7:03 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld: As 2022’s primaries approach, an unprecedented wave of public and private efforts are underway to foster trust in election operations and election officials in response to ongoing claims by Donald Trump and his supporters, including many officeholders… Continue reading

“New Brennan Center analyses: Sponsors of anti-voter bills and their election denialism; failed Trump campaign lawsuits and related anti-voter bills”

April 13, 2022, 6:56 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Release: Today the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law published a pair of analyses tracing post-2020 paths of the misinformation and conspiracy theories spread by the former president and his allies about voting and the 2020 election.One analysis looks… Continue reading