Trump supporters paid for Arizona’s pseudo-audit
CNN reports: “The majority of the money has come from organizations tied to people aligned with former President Donald Trump and his false claims of a stolen election.”
Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Georgia Republicans take first step to Fulton elections takeover”
Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The article notes that Fulton County is “home to a tenth of all Georgians.” Under Georgia’s new law, “the State Election Board can replace a county’s election board following a performance review/audit/investigation. Then, a temporary… Continue reading
1/6 Select Committee Still Planning Its Investigation
Politico reports: “Lawmakers on the Jan. 6 select committee describe their probe’s reach as still undefined.” For what it’s worth, I think it’s important to focus on whether–and if so how–the “Stop the Steal” organizers thought they were going… Continue reading
New details on Trump’s efforts to get Acting AG Rosen to assist his election subversion efforts.
Washington Post reports. We know Trump wanted to overturn the result of the election. What we don’t (yet?) know is the full extent of the lengths he went in this effort and whether anything he did crossed the line… Continue reading
More reports on DOJ warnings to states
A call for pro-democracy journalism
Margaret Sullivan in The Washington Post, explicitly invoking the work of Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein, calls for Big Media to reframe its approach: “The democracy beat shouldn’t be some kind of specialized innovation, but a widespread rethinking… Continue reading
Arizona “audit” update: GOP go-between quits
NBC: Arizona’s former Secretary of State, Ken Bennett, is resigning his role in supervising the Cyber Ninjas on behalf of the state senate. Having been shut out of the process, he announced: “I cannot put a rubber stamp on… Continue reading
Georgia may not be done revising its election laws
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The Georgia legislature is thinking of new ways to strip power from the Secretary of State’s office, another apparent rebuke to Brad Raffensperger.
To be fair, the whole idea of elected partisans running elections… Continue reading
Two excellent podcasts on yesterday’s 1/6 hearing
Luke Broadwater of the NY Times was on the Daily podcast and provided a superb overview and analysis of the political dynamics leading up to and surrounding yesterday’s hearing.
The Lawfare podcast went even deeper into details, with Quinta… Continue reading
DOJ Refuses to Defend Rep. Brooks
Significant development in litigation over the Big Lie and its consequences.
1/6/21 versus 1/6/25?
As reports of today’s select committee hearing are starting to roll in (from The NY Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Hill, and elsewhere), I’m struck by the fact that the ongoing threat to democracy is… Continue reading
January 6 Select Committee Gets Started
As the committee’s hearings begin with riveting testimony of the horrific violence at the Capitol on January 6, and with much discussion about the need for the committee to figure out what caused the breach of the Capitol that day… Continue reading
Preview of select committee’s hearing
Some emphasize the division between Republicans, others the attempt by Democrats to enlist Cheney and Kinzinger in establishing a responsibly bipartisan investigation:
The Hill, Politico, Washington Post, NY Times, WSJ
NFRPP Discussion of S1/HR1
The Network for Responsible Public Policy last week hosted a discussion on the current status, and future prospects, of the For the People Act, still pending in the Senate as S1 (having been enacted by the House as HR1). Dan… Continue reading