Category Archives: election subversion risk

“Trump sues Hillary Clinton, others over 2016 election he won”

March 24, 2022, 2:41 pmelection subversion riskDerek Muller

Felicia Sonmez and Matt Zapotosky in the Washington Post: Former president Donald Trump on Thursday filed a lawsuit against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others, alleging that they “maliciously conspired to weave a false… Continue reading

John Eastman in Thursday Speech Still Claiming “Illegalities” in Conduct of Election in Wisconsin and Elsewhere Justifies Wisconsin Legislature Taking Action Even Now Against 2020 Presidential Election Results (Video)

March 18, 2022, 4:01 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Part I of video: https://twitter.com/clayberg/status/1504888349072441346?s=20&t=zjY4Bl67S9AinQ57tOHU3Q Part 2: pic.twitter.com/xtsLX6NHzF— Clay (@clayberg) March 18, 2022

“Democrats urge DOJ to address ‘insider threats’ from candidates who deny 2020 results”

March 16, 2022, 12:30 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

The Hill: More than a dozen House Democrats are urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address “insider threats to election systems,” which they say are posed by candidates who are running to fill local election positions motivated by former … Continue reading

“Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence’s second script rewrite”

March 16, 2022, 7:26 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.Pence’s decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language as he… Continue reading

Bauer and Ginsberg on 60 Minutes Overtime: “Helping election officials who are threatened”

March 15, 2022, 11:27 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

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“Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings”

March 15, 2022, 7:24 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: A document found by federal prosecutors in the possession of a far-right leader contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, people familiar with the document said on… Continue reading

“Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election”

March 15, 2022, 7:21 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms of court supervision, fearing they could be misled into committing political violence… Continue reading

“‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud”

March 14, 2022, 10:54 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Any thought they’d had that the atmosphere might calm down was gone. What amounted to a grass-roots uprising had gained momentum, become more organized and started coming after the election office.New people had been showing up for the… Continue reading

“Beware the Never-Ending Disinformation Emergency”

March 11, 2022, 8:06 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Gilad Edelman for Wired: For that matter, why should YouTube police election fraud claims at all, long after the election is over?Social media companies are private entities that aren’t bound by the First Amendment. But their power over communication is… Continue reading

“Pressure on Justice Dept. as Jan. 6 Panel Lays Out Case Against Trump”

March 4, 2022, 7:41 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The Justice Department is facing mounting pressure to prosecute former President Donald J. Trump after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack laid out its argument for a potential criminal case on Wednesday night, placing Attorney General… Continue reading

“New evidence shows Trump was told many times there was no voter fraud — but he kept saying it anyway”

March 4, 2022, 7:31 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign for reelection.In the weeks that followed, multiple top… Continue reading

“Georgia’s race to oversee voting pits an election denier against an election defender”

March 3, 2022, 11:07 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Miles Parks for NPR: There has never been evidence to support that claim. No major or widespread issues with the 2020 election were uncovered anywhere in the United States, and paper ballots in Georgia were recounted multiple times, including… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump”

March 3, 2022, 7:13 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit… Continue reading