Category Archives: election subversion risk

The Yale Journal Has Just Published My New Feature Article: “The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law”

March 31, 2025, 7:38 amelection subversion risk, Supreme Court, The Voting Wars, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I am delighted that the Yale Law Journal has published my new Feature, The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale L.J. 1673 (2025). I consider this among the most important work I’ve… Continue reading

President Trump Issues Dangerous Executive Order That Would Shift to Presidency More Power Over the Conduct of Federal Elections and Potentially Disenfranchise Millions of Voters

March 25, 2025, 2:03 pmelection administration, Election Assistance Commission, Election Meltdown, election subversion risk, Elections Clause, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

I am still making my way through this new Trump executive order on election administration (helpfully posted by Chris Geidner). There is a lot in here, but let me make four initial points as I still digest this. An executive… Continue reading

March 31 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Combatting False Election Information: Lessons from 2024 and a Look to the Future”

March 25, 2025, 7:21 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Looking forward to this (free registration required): Monday, March 31, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, WebinarAlice Marwick, Director of Research, Data & Society, UNC Chapel Hill, Kate Starbird, University of Washington, and Joshua Tucker, NYU.Richard L. Hasen, moderator (Director, Safeguarding Democracy… Continue reading

“Colorado calls DOJ interest in Tina Peters’ case a ‘grotesque attempt to weaponize the rule of law”

March 12, 2025, 7:44 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Colorado Public Radio: Colorado is asking a federal judge in Denver to reject the U.S. Justice Department’s statement of interest in the case of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. In its filing, the state writes that the DOJ intervention… Continue reading

“Can We Save American Democracy?”

March 12, 2025, 7:33 amauthoritarian threats in US, election subversion riskRick Hasen

March 26 online event at the Ash Center (Harvard): In a recent article, Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die, predicts that “U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second… Continue reading

“U.S. agency has stopped supporting states on election security, official confirms”

March 11, 2025, 1:58 pmelection subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Votebeat: The federal government has halted election security activities and ended funding for the system that alerts state officials of election security threats across state lines, a representative of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told state election officials… Continue reading

“Lawyers Plan to Sue Federal Government on Behalf of Jan. 6 Rioters”

March 8, 2025, 7:09 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: A team of lawyers is preparing to sue the federal government on behalf of hundreds of people pardoned by President Trump for their role in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, claiming that the rioters were… Continue reading

“The November Election That Still Hasn’t Been Certified; North Carolinians voted in a state-supreme-court election four months ago. What’s going on?”

March 7, 2025, 6:46 amelection subversion risk, judicial electionsRick Hasen

David Graham for The Atlantic: Yesterday marked four months since Election Day, but North Carolinians somehow still don’t know who will fill a key seat on the state supreme court. The problem is not that no one knows who won.… Continue reading

“Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations”

February 20, 2025, 9:21 amauthoritarian threats in US, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The Trump administration is targeting government officials who had been flagging foreign interference in U.S. elections, despite ongoing concerns that adversaries are stoking political and social divisions by spreading propaganda and disinformation online, current and former government officials said.… Continue reading

“US Homeland Security says election security personnel placed on leave”

February 12, 2025, 7:18 amauthoritarian threats in US, chicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Reuters: The Department of Homeland Security, as part of an evaluation of its election security mission, said on Tuesday that personnel focused on misinformation, disinformation and foreign influence operations aimed at U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave. DHS… Continue reading

“Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them”

February 10, 2025, 7:29 amauthoritarian threats in US, chicanery, Department of Justice, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Ed Martin was in the mob outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, posting on social media that the violent riot that day was marked by “faith and joy.” He has often echoed President Trump’s false claims that… Continue reading

Eric Holder: “The Courts Must Stop This Judge From Stealing an Election”

February 9, 2025, 9:44 amchicanery, election subversion risk, judicial electionsRick Hasen

Eric Holder NYT oped: But there is no suggestion that any of these 60,000-plus voters acted improperly, deliberately cast illegal ballots or failed to produce required identification when voting. And when the State Board of Elections reviewed his claim,… Continue reading

“Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference”

February 8, 2025, 11:26 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections. The move, which follows years of Trump and his allies disputing the role that Russian influence campaigns played… Continue reading

“Trump continues federal purge, gutting cyber workers who combat disinformation”

February 7, 2025, 10:24 amcheap speech, chicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: The Trump administration has moved to push out a swathe of federal workers previously involved in combating election-related disinformation, according to three people familiar with the matter, amid allegations from congressional Republicans that their work unfairly targeted conservative speech… Continue reading