Category Archives: election subversion risk

“‘His Street Cred Went Up’: The Unintended Consequences of Outing the GOP Lawmakers at Jan. 6”

October 18, 2021, 6:54 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Polizzi spent the rest of the week hunched over a laptop at her parents’ house in New Jersey: “Immediately we were getting incoming from other people: ‘What about this person?’ ‘What about this person?’ ‘What about this… Continue reading

Video: CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown – CNN’s Pamela Brown interview w/ Ece Temelkuran & Richard Hasen on Election Subversion Risk in the US.

October 17, 2021, 6:53 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

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“Advocates worry Biden is letting U.S. democracy erode on his watch”

October 17, 2021, 11:26 amelection subversion risk, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

WaPo: Voting rights advocates meet once every week or two with White House officials via video conference, and in almost every session, an advocate speaks up to say that President Biden must do more, that American democracy is under… Continue reading

How best to safeguard democracy? Two conflicting views on recent display.

October 17, 2021, 11:01 amelection subversion risk, political parties, political polarizationNed Foley

I am struck by how forcefully two very different strategies for defending democracy have been advocated this past week. First, Ian Bassin on The Bulwark podcast emphasized (and I’m paraphrasing here) that the advice he heard from Europeans combatting rising… Continue reading

“Opinion: The dangerous idea behind Trump’s coup effort is still alive. Let’s kill it.”

October 15, 2021, 8:44 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Greg Sargent: Recently, Claremont Institute — the think tank that employs Eastman and is developing a demented intellectual theory of Trumpism — put out a statement denying that Eastman ever suggested Pence should throw the election.That’s nonsense — Eastman’s memo… Continue reading

Your Must-Read of the Week: Ned Foley on How Trump is Likely Ineligible to Run for President in 2024, and How Congress May Need to Act Now to Disqualify Him Under the Fourteenth Amendment Or Else Claim May Be Waived

October 15, 2021, 7:21 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

This from Ned deserves a lot of attention. It is a ticking time bomb. Read it.

Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment and January 6, 2025: the need for legislation now

October 14, 2021, 2:42 pmballot access, election subversion risk, electoral collegeNed Foley

All the current talk of Donald Trump running again in 2024 assumes that he’s eligible to serve as president if reelected. He’s not, or at least there’s a strong argument that he isn’t. In fairness to America’s voters, this argument ought… Continue reading

U.S. Senate Candidate for New Hampshire Pledges Not to Vote to Certify 2024 Election Results if Trump Objects

October 14, 2021, 11:52 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

The election subversion risk is real: A Republican candidate running for the US Senate in New Hampshire, in a key 2022 race, explicitly tells @IChotiner as a sort of solemn campaign promise that he would vote to not certify the… Continue reading

“Zero Trust: How to Secure American Elections When the Losers Won’t Accept They Lost”

October 14, 2021, 11:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

New report from Masterson, M., DePew, J., Jonsson, K., Perkins, S., and Zaheer, A. Abstract: In this report, we outline three exigent threats to election processes following the events of the 2020 general election. Then, we provide 11 targeted recommendations… Continue reading

Jeffrey Clark Apparently Booted from Work at Conservative Legal Group NCLA, Without Any Acknowledgement from Group He Might Have Been Fired for Trying to Steal the 2020 Election

October 13, 2021, 4:00 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

News: Whoa! Did @NCLALegal fire Jeffrey Clark and pull a @fedsoc and boot the person for fomenting insurrection while not publicly announcing that's what they were doing? (On FedSoc, see here: https://t.co/DIQ10nk7tV, https://t.co/RjCPB26pxt). https://t.co/CkrNYC391B— Rick Hasen… Continue reading

Trump Says That “If We Don’t Solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020,” Republican Voters Will Stay Home in 2022 and 2024

October 13, 2021, 2:24 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This seems to escalate the Big Lie and put Republicans in a tough position: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1448386456406347786?s=20

“How close were we to an actual stolen election — stolen by Trump?”

October 13, 2021, 9:41 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Aaron Blake for WaPo: The picture of Donald Trump’s scheme to get the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 election has been significantly filled out in recent weeks. First came the disclosure that conservative lawyer John Eastman had… Continue reading

“John Eastman’s Big Lie”

October 13, 2021, 8:07 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

George Thomas at The Constitutionalist: John Eastman was the architect of former President Trump’s plan to get his Vice President to declare him the winner of the 2020 election. The scheme turned on Eastman’s insistence that in seven states… Continue reading

“Evidence of Armed Trump Extremists Continues to Emerge in January 6 Cases”

October 13, 2021, 8:05 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Mother Jones: Since January 6, Republican lawmakers attempting to cover up the Trump-driven insurrection have claimed that no one brought guns to the US Capitol. That claim is false, as we showed in a recent Mother Jones investigation documenting… Continue reading

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