Category Archives: election subversion risk

Must-read CNN Oped by Judge Luttig: “The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election”

April 27, 2022, 6:59 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Judge Luttig: That objective is not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That’s constitutionally impossible. Trump’s and the Republicans’ far more ambitious objective is to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan… Continue reading

“McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6”

April 27, 2022, 6:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, feared in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack that several far-right members of Congress would incite violence against other lawmakers, identifying several by name as security risks in private conversations… Continue reading

“Robin Vos extends Michael Gableman’s Wisconsin election review after pressure from Donald Trump”

April 27, 2022, 6:50 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is extending the taxpayer-funded contract of the former state Supreme Court justice leading a review of the 2020 election — a decision announced a day after former President Donald Trump sought to intimidate… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: Meadows’ texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election”

April 26, 2022, 2:24 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: Newly obtained text messages and recent court filings fill in significant gaps about the key role a little-known Pennsylvania Republican congressman played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.… Continue reading

“New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning”

April 26, 2022, 6:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: It was less than two weeks before President Donald J. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress would have what they saw as their last chance to overturn the 2020 election, and Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, was growing… Continue reading

“Trump turns up the heat on Wisconsin Republican leader Robin Vos to keep Gableman election probe alive”

April 26, 2022, 6:50 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Former President Donald Trump again has the state’s most powerful Republican in his crosshairs, seeking to intimidate Assembly Speaker Robin Vos into continuing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election that has not produced evidence… Continue reading

“Building the ‘Big Lie’: Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth”

April 26, 2022, 6:45 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ProPublica deep dive: Salazar’s story was just one of many pieces of so-called evidence that members of the coalition have offered as proof that the 2020 election was rigged. That unfounded belief has emerged as one of the most… Continue reading

“Republicans Have Picked An Election Denier To Run Michigan’s Elections”

April 23, 2022, 9:40 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

BuzzFeed: Michigan Republicans endorsed Kristina Karamo, a first-time candidate who has spread lies about the 2020 election, to run all the state’s elections as the party’s candidate for secretary of state.Karamo is one of at least 17 election deniers running… Continue reading

“Greene says she can’t remember if she urged Trump to impose martial law”

April 22, 2022, 4:25 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, testifying Friday about her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a case seeking to disqualify her from seeking reelection, said she could not remember… Continue reading

“This weekend’s Michigan GOP convention marks a key moment for election denialism”

April 22, 2022, 11:28 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: Michigan Republicans will meet this weekend to decide which candidates to nominate for a number of key statewide positions, marking an early swing-state test of former President Donald Trump’s influence in the midterm elections.It could… Continue reading

Listen to Audio of Kevin McCarthy Saying to Liz Cheney He Would Push Donald Trump to Resign After Jan. 6 Insurrection, the Same Day He Denied Saying It

April 21, 2022, 8:04 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Obtained by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns as part of their upcoming book. After their article about McCarthy saying this posted, McCarthy denied it vehemently. Then they released the audio on Maddow.

In Georgia Poll of Republican Primary Voters, Trump “Big Lie” Endorser Jody Hice Has Nearly 2:1 Lead Over Georgia SOS Brad Raffesperger, Who Stood Up to Trump’s Attempt to Overturn 2020 Election Results; Dangers of Election Subversion Ahead

April 21, 2022, 11:26 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Landmark poll: Victories for Big Lie proponents would be very dangerous for democracy, for reasons I describe in my recent article in the Harvard Law Review Forum: Elections are already administered in many places by partisan actors who… Continue reading

“Democrats Fear for Democracy. Why Aren’t They Running on It in 2022?”

April 21, 2022, 7:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: One party is running on democracy and elections in 2022, and it’s not the Democrats.Despite a broad consensus on the left that the country’s most revered institutions are in trouble, with President Biden and other leaders warning gravely… Continue reading

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

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