Category Archives: election subversion risk

Announcing the Fall Webinar Series for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project (Each event free but registration required)

August 23, 2023, 8:24 amelection subversion risk, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Very excited to announce this lineup for the Safeguarding Democracy Project’s Fall 2023 webinar series (each event free but registration required): September 5, 12pm-1pm – The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and Public Peace Webinar Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU) Benjamin … Continue reading

“Where the 2024 candidates stand on elections, democracy and Jan. 6”

August 23, 2023, 8:17 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: As former president Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, he is promoting false claims about the 2020 election, championing violent offenders who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and refusing to commit to abiding by… Continue reading

“Trump and his allies double down on election lies after indictments for trying to undo 2020 results”

August 21, 2023, 10:05 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: A federal indictment and one in Georgia charging Donald Trump with lying about the 2020 election to overturn President Joe Biden’s win have done nothing to slow the geyser of election falsehoods flowing from the former president and his… Continue reading

“What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?; A detailed look back at the computer intrusion that features prominently in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s election interference indictment”

August 16, 2023, 7:25 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Lawfare deep dive by Anna Bower: Days before the forensics team sets foot in Douglas, which is about 130 miles southwest of Savannah, voters had arrived at the elections office to mark their ballots in the state’s runoff election for… Continue reading

My New One at Slate: “Why the Fulton County Indictment Is Different From Jack Smith’s Case”

August 15, 2023, 7:45 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: If the recent federal indictment of Donald Trump on charges related to his attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election was a streamlined surgical strike aimed at assuring a clean case… Continue reading

“Trump, 18 others indicted for trying to overthrow 2020 Georgia election”

August 14, 2023, 10:10 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Former President Donald Trump orchestrated a sweeping criminal enterprise, committing more than a dozen felonies, as he tried and failed to overturn his defeat in Georgia’s 2020 election, according to an indictment handed up Monday by a… Continue reading

“Atlanta-area prosecutor expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in Trump case”

August 10, 2023, 7:44 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a… Continue reading

“Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win”

August 8, 2023, 8:05 pmelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

NYT: A lawyer allied with President Donald J. Trump first laid out a plot to use false slates of electors to subvert the 2020 election in a previously unknown internal campaign memo that prosecutors are portraying as a crucial link… Continue reading

My New LA Times Oped: “Why Georgia might beat the feds at holding Trump accountable”

August 8, 2023, 2:54 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

I have written this piece for the LA Times. It begins: In Fulton County, Ga., Donald Trump and others are widely expected to be indicted any day for attempting to illegally reverse Joe Biden’s victory in that state in 2020.… Continue reading

Jack Goldsmith: “The Prosecution of Trump May Have Terrible Consequences”

August 8, 2023, 2:16 pmDepartment of Justice, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Must-read NYT oped: It may be satisfying now to see the special counsel Jack Smith indict Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly criminal actions in connection with the 2020 presidential election. But the prosecution, which might be justified, reflects… Continue reading

“John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings”

August 7, 2023, 4:47 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special… Continue reading

“Trump’s moves to overturn 2020 election were ‘aspirational,’ not criminal, his lawyer argues”

August 6, 2023, 4:00 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: An attorney for former president Donald Trump said on Sunday that he will argue that Trump’s failed attempt to cling to power after the 2020 election was “aspirational” and not criminal. John Lauro, who is defending Trump against four… Continue reading

“The 2020 Election Fueled a Crisis of Democracy. Voters Fear a Repeat in 2024.”

August 6, 2023, 3:54 pmelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

WSJ: Americans are worried there will be another electoral crisis in 2024 because the aftermath of 2020 continues to reverberate through the nation’s politics. Many Republicans refuse to acknowledge Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, saying they have lost faith in… Continue reading

“Republicans Saved Democracy in 2020”

August 6, 2023, 2:56 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Henry Olsen WaPo column: If you think this commendation is misplaced, imagine what would have happened if some or all of these people had been partisan rather than patriotic. State legislatures would have openly challenged the election outcome, presenting… Continue reading