Category Archives: election subversion risk

John Eastman Claims, Without Evidence, That a Cover Up is Preventing the Production of More Evidence of Voter Fraud from 2020 Election

November 6, 2023, 7:20 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From a “60 Minutes” interview: Scott Pelley: You said 2500 convicts, the investigation found four. You said 10,000 dead voters, the investigation found four. It doesn’t seem like you knew what you were talking about. John Eastman: You’ve now mischaracterized… Continue reading

“One year out: how a free and fair 2024 presidential election could be under threat”

November 3, 2023, 9:28 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Deep dive by Zachary Roth: The last time America elected a president, it led to a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol and a failed coup that gravely damaged the political system and marred the peaceful transfer of power for… Continue reading

“Judge finds Eastman culpable for ethics breaches in 2020 bid to keep Trump in power”

November 3, 2023, 7:42 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: A California judge made a “preliminary finding” Thursday that attorney John Eastman breached professional ethics when he aided Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, a significant milestone in the lengthy proceedings over whether Eastman should lose his… Continue reading

“An election chief says the ‘big lie’ ended her career. She’s fighting back.”

November 2, 2023, 2:09 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo piece, with the subhead: “Christine Gibbons was harassed, investigated and dropped as registrar after she was targeted by false election claims. Her career and, some say, fair elections in one Virginia city hang on the outcome of her… Continue reading

“Republicans legislators claw back control of elections in key states”

November 1, 2023, 8:31 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Republican officials in key battleground states are moving to assert more control over elections ahead of 2024 — efforts that could disrupt preparations already underway for the presidential contest. Unlike prior pushes that have focused on poll access and… Continue reading

Federalist Society Lawyers are “Squishes” Too Committed to the Rule of Law for a Second Trump Term

November 1, 2023, 7:37 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

From a must-read NYT report: In many ways, the Federalist Society has become synonymous with the Republican establishment, and its members’ most common interests — including pushing an originalist interpretation of the Constitution and federal statutes — can be… Continue reading

“Prosecutors are focused on a rural Georgia county in Trump’s 2020 election case. Here’s why”

November 1, 2023, 7:06 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

LA Times: They were running out of time and needed a Hail Mary. Joe Biden had won the electoral college vote in the 2020 presidential election. And with less than three weeks before Congress was set to certify the results… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Safeguarding Democracy Project Conference: “The Law and Politics of Potentially Disqualifying Donald Trump from Running for President”

October 30, 2023, 5:01 pmballot access, election subversion riskRick Hasen

This virtual conference took place October 20. It was a great set of discussions with Julia Azari, Guy Charles, Edward B. Foley, Mark Graber, Rebecca Green, Gretchen Helmke, Sherrilyn Ifill, Sam Issacharoff, Kurt Lash, Lisa Manheim, Derek Muller, and Daniel… Continue reading

ELB Podcast 5:3: The Trump Prosecutions, the First Amendment, and Election Interference (Genevieve Lakier and Eugene Volokh)

October 30, 2023, 2:00 pmELB Podcast, election subversion risk, ethics investigations, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: Do gag orders against presidential candidate Donald Trump in his civil or criminal trials violate the First Amendment? What should we make of Trump’s claims that his actions to overturn the results of the 2020 elections are… Continue reading

“Pence joins Republicans eviscerated by contradicting Trump’s election lies”

October 30, 2023, 9:44 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: The rise of Rep. Mike Johnson in the House, coupled with the fall of former Vice President Mike Pence and the dominance of ex-President Donald Trump, shows that 2020 election denialism is a prerequisite for winning Republican power.… Continue reading

Did the Threat of Political Violence Against Members of Congress Prevent the Conviction of Trump After His Second Impeachment?

October 27, 2023, 7:03 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Explosive claim (if true) via Mediaite: Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) revealed to biographer McKay Coppins that the threat of physical violence effectively kept many elected Republicans from voting to impeach or convict President Donald Trump, even though they wanted to.… Continue reading

“Arizona prosecutors ask about 2020 pressure campaign by Trump allies”

October 27, 2023, 6:49 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The Arizona attorney general’s investigation into the coordinated attempt to overturn the 2020 election results by creating and sending documents to the federal government falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner is also zeroing in on the pressure placed on… Continue reading

Mike Johnson Podcast on June 7, 2022 Defended Extreme Version of the Independent State Legislature Theory to Justify Objecting to 2020 Vote Count favoring Joe Biden; Supreme Court Definitively Rejected This Theory Last June

October 26, 2023, 1:48 pmelection subversion risk, legislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can listen here. This is the version of the theory that the U.S. Supreme Court definitively rejected in last term’s Moore v. Harper case.

“Can the GOP ever come to grips with the lies of 2020?”

October 26, 2023, 10:23 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: The week’s splitscreen cast into stark relief just how much the Republican Party remains riven over whether to believe the lie that Trump won, a perhaps unbridgeable divide. Only on rare occasions, though, does the divide come to light:… Continue reading

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