Category Archives: election subversion risk
“Trump plans to use charges to revisit 2020 election, a fraught topic for GOP”
WaPo:
Former president Donald Trump and some of his legal advisers see an upside to the latest criminal case against him: He can use his upcoming trial to further argue his false claims of a stolen 2020 election.
The looming… Continue reading
“The Jolt: Fulton DA Fani Willis ‘ready’ after feds indict Trump”
The latest on a possible Trump state indictment in Georgia.
“Prosecutors Took Cautious Path in Connecting Trump to Jan. 6 Violence”
NYT:
There was something noticeably absent when the special counsel, Jack Smith, unsealed an indictment this week charging former President Donald J. Trump with multiple conspiracies to overturn the 2020 election: any count that directly accused Mr. Trump of being… Continue reading
I Spoke with A Martinez of NPR’s Morning Edition, CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes About What the Trump Election Subversion Indictment Means for American Democracy
NPR: NPR’s A Martinez talks to UCLA election law expert Rick Hasen of the Safeguarding Democracy Project, who calls U.S. v. Donald Trump “the most important case in our nation’s history.”
CNN: Watch here at the 36 minute mark… Continue reading
Torres-Spelliscy: “Why Trump’s First Amendment Defense is Likely to Fail: SCOTUS Won’t Buy It.”
The following is a guest post from Ciara Torres-Spelliscy:
Donald Trump may wish to invoke the First Amendment to unravel the Special Counsel’s case against him related to January 6th. It won’t work. Here’s the short explanation of why… Continue reading
“Trump’s defense team casts Jan. 6 indictment as an attack on free speech”
Washington Times:
University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo said free speech isn’t an all-encompassing right and some speech is criminal.
“As a historical matter, this is the most important criminal prosecution that has ever been brought by the… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case In Our Nation’s History”
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:
Forget hush money payments to porn stars hidden as business expenses. Forget showing off classified documents about Iran attack plans to visitors, and then ordering the pool guy to erase… Continue reading
Breaking: Donald Trump Indicted for 2020 Election-Related Activities (Link to Indictment and Analysis to Come)
Here is the indictment.
(This post will be updated)
“Michigan prosecutors charge Trump allies in felonies involving voting machines, illegal ‘testing'”
Politico:
A former Republican attorney general candidate and another supporter of former President Donald Trump have been criminally charged in Michigan in connection with accessing and tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election, according to court records.
Matthew DePerno,… Continue reading
“REPORT: Corporate Interests Gave Election Objectors $4.6M Last Quarter, Now Totaling $45M Since Insurrection”
Accountable.us:
A new analysis from government watchdog Accountable.US found Fortune 500 companies and industry trade associations donated over $4.6 million in the second quarter of 2023 to members of Congress that voted against certifying the 2020 election results. Since the… Continue reading
“Fulton County DA says work is done in Trump probe and ‘we’re ready to go'”
CNN:
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reaffirmed in a local news interview that she will announce charging decisions by September 1 in her investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election result… Continue reading
“Judge throws out Trump’s ‘big lie’ defamation lawsuit against CNN”
WaPo:
A federal judge on Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president said the network defamed him by associating him with Adolf Hitler.
Trump argued that by using the phrase the “big lie” in… Continue reading
“The 2024 Election Could Be the End of the Cases Against Donald Trump”
Paul Rosenzweig in The Atlantic: “[The 2024 election will] be a referendum on whether Trump will ever be held legally accountable for his actions. Trump faces multiple civil suits and at least two criminal indictments (with two more seemingly… Continue reading