Category Archives: election subversion risk

“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

“In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’

April 12, 2022, 1:32 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: One week before an angry mob stormed the Capitol, a communications expert named Jason Sullivan, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr., joined a conference call with a group of President Donald J. Trump’s… Continue reading

“How a Trump ally got his unfounded voting-machine audit push in front of federal cyber agency”

April 12, 2022, 6:56 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: Donald Trump’s top pick to administer Arizona elections in 2024 is more than a garden-variety backer — he played a little-known but notable role in bolstering the former president’s push to subvert the 2020 ballot.It was the waning… Continue reading

Eastman Watch: “Former Trump lawyer, amid clash with Jan. 6 committee, pushing to decertify 2020 election”

April 12, 2022, 6:54 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ABC News: Just as he was emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, former Trump lawyer John Eastman took a trip to Wisconsin.Eastman, a right-wing lawyer who drafted a plan for former President… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Panel Has Evidence for Criminal Referral of Trump, but Splits on Sending”

April 10, 2022, 12:22 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The leaders of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack have grown divided over whether to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department of former President Donald J. Trump, even though they have concluded that they have… Continue reading

“Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, in Wild New Campaign Ad: ‘The Fake News, Big Tech and Blue State Liberals Stole the Election from President Trump’”

April 10, 2022, 12:15 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Mediaite: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) went all in on Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” with her campaign ad blasting those who supposedly “stole” the election from the former president.Ivey left little room for subtlety in her video titled… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: ‘We control them all’: Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ideas for overturning 2020 election before it was called”

April 8, 2022, 1:26 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term,… Continue reading

“Big Outside Spending on Election Denial Floods Local Elections in Battleground States”

April 7, 2022, 3:05 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Brennan Center: Tuesday’s local elections in and around Green Bay, Wisconsin, were the focus of big spending by outside groups pushing narratives around election denial — claims that the 2020 presidential election was so marred by fraud that it… Continue reading

“Trump deflects blame for Jan. 6 silence, says he wanted to march to Capitol”

April 7, 2022, 7:35 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Josh Dawsey for WaPo: Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi… Continue reading

“Justice Dept. Investigation of Jan. 6 Confronts Sprawling Cast of Characters”

April 6, 2022, 7:24 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Among the challenges facing the federal grand jury recently empaneled to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is the sheer number of people who might have information relevant to its inquiry.According to a subpoena issued by… Continue reading

“January 6 committee obtains emails that former Trump attorney John Eastman sought to keep secret”

April 5, 2022, 6:46 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.The 101 emails — exchanged between January 4… Continue reading

“This election expert is very worried about the 2024 election”

April 5, 2022, 12:06 pmcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Fredreka Schouten interviewed me for CNN.

April 6 BPC/ERN Event: “Neutralizing Partisan Incentives for Election Officials)”

April 5, 2022, 8:37 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

This looks important (free registration required): In the last three years, election administration and election officials have been pulled into the political fray. Most election systems are designed to be led by nonpartisan experts with the best interests of… Continue reading

“How a California lawyer became a focal point of the Jan. 6 investigation”

April 5, 2022, 6:54 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

LA Times on John Eastman.

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