I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: On Monday, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey added his name to the list of Republican officials who have acted admirably to uphold the rule of law following President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attacks … Continue reading
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AP: Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.His comments come despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the election was … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: A judge handling an election-fraud lawsuit brought by allies of President Donald Trump said the case was backed by “precious little proof,” but went on to issue a restraining order aimed at blocking three Georgia counties … Continue reading
CNN: A wide range of Republican senators are shrugging off President Donald Trump’s evidence-free claims that mass voter fraud cost him the election, ignoring their party leader’s relentless attacks against a foundation of American democracy amid their growing expectation that the matter … Continue reading
Despicable and grounds for bar disciplinary proceedings if not more: An attorney for President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts said on Monday that Chris Krebs, the former head of U.S. cybersecurity, should be “shot” for going against the president’s conspiracy theories … Continue reading
Jonathan Adler at Volokh: It is nearly a month since election day and yet discredited and debunked claims of election fraud or “irregularities” continue to go viral on social media platforms. Even some otherwise reputable commentators seem to get sucked … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: A judge assigned to a Republican-led lawsuit alleging widespread fraud in the presidential election in Georgia issued an order late Sunday night blocking plans to wipe or reset voting machines used in three counties in the … Continue reading
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Trump continues his abhorrent delegitimization efforts. See also Fox News Lets Trump Spew Lies Unchecked In First Interview Since Election Day … Continue reading
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Wisconsin’s partial recount boosted Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by 87 votes Sunday as President Donald Trump said he was preparing a lawsuit to overturn the results.The completion of Dane County’s retallying of the vote came two days after Milwaukee County finished its … Continue reading
WaPo deep dive: The facts were indisputable: President Trump had lost.But Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a … Continue reading
Important NYT piece: If the president hoped Republicans across the country would fall in line behind his false and farcical claims that the election was somehow rigged on a mammoth scale by a nefarious multinational conspiracy, he was in for … Continue reading
In a 21-page unanimous and scathing unpublished opinion, the Third Circuit has rejected the appeal of the Trump campaign in the Pennsylvania federal case challenging the election results. Judge Bibas, a Trump appointee, begins the opinion: “Free, fair elections are … Continue reading
You can watch the full remarks here. Let’s not be blasé about the President lying to the American people, falsely claiming hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes being cast per state. This is horrible and despicable. He’s proved none of … Continue reading
WaPo: Sen. David Perdue was encouraging a crowd at a gun club south of Atlanta to support him and fellow Republican Kelly Loeffler in their bids for Georgia’s Senate seats, which he called the only thing standing between America and … Continue reading
NBC News: President Donald Trump on Wednesday phoned into a Pennsylvania state Senate hearing where his lawyers were appearing as part of their shriveling legal battle against the election results.After calling his lawyers in the middle of the hearing — held at the … Continue reading
Read the complaint here (via Cameron Langford). One of the allegations of the complaint is that TTV withdrew the 4 lawsuits in cooperation with the Trump campaign. Can’t wait to hear the rest of this story. More thoughts in this … Continue reading
Nice illustration of how gross incompetence in election administration can be spun as fraud. … Continue reading
This Politico piece is so good to understand how the depravity of the voter fraud myth spread in Michigan and is undermining the integrity of Republican officials in the state. It begins: After five years spent bullying the Republican Party … Continue reading
NYT: On the morning of Nov. 5, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, asked his Facebook followers to report cases of voter fraud with the hashtag, Stop the Steal. His post was shared over 5,000 times.By late afternoon, the … Continue reading
I have written this piece for the NY Times. It begins: Even as the campaign lawsuits brought by President Trump over the 2020 election enter their death throes, many people continue to worry that Mr. Trump will find three Republican legislatures … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump made explicit Saturday the strategy his legal team has been hinting at for days: He wants Republican-led legislatures to overturn election results in states that Joe Biden won.“Why is Joe Biden so quickly forming a Cabinet … Continue reading
Detroit News: The Michigan and national Republican parties have asked the Board of State Canvassers to delay certification of the state’s election results in a bid to investigate “anomalies and irregularities” alleged to have occurred in Michigan’s Nov. 3 election. Michigan … Continue reading
NYT: But this is also a moment of truth for the Republican Party: The country is on a knife’s edge, with G.O.P. officials from state capitols to Congress choosing between the will of voters and the will of one man. … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results is about to smash into reality: a gauntlet of battleground state deadlines that are poised to extinguish his increasingly desperate attempts to hold onto the presidency.Michigan is due to certify … Continue reading
Politico: President Donald Trump has driven senators into retirement and tweeted wayward Republicans into primary defeat during four years leading the GOP. Now, as a lame duck, he’s launched a new campaign against GOP election officials who won’t bend to … Continue reading
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Yesterday Jenna Ellis of the Trump campaign (who had comically attacked me for noting that one of campaign’s proposed orders erred in signing a proposed order as if the judge had signed it) said at a press conference that the … Continue reading
CNN: President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump on Thursday accelerated his efforts to interfere in the nation’s electoral process, taking the extraordinary step of reaching out directly to Republican state legislators from Michigan and inviting them to the White House on Friday for discussions … Continue reading
New Josh Douglas for CNN: Yes, there is election fraud. It’s coming from inside the White House.President Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the election and win another term are exceedingly unlikely to work. But he is already succeeding in undermining key … Continue reading
Must-read: Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential election results in Pennsylvania has now surpassed 81,000 votes, far exceeding Donald Trump’s 44,000-vote victory margin there four years ago. Yet the Trump campaign continues to claim in court huge but incalculable levels … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump has abandoned his plan to win reelection by disqualifying enough ballots to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s wins in key battleground states, pivoting instead to a goal that appears equally unattainable: delaying a final count long enough to … Continue reading
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AP: Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed yet another version of its lawsuit over the election results in Pennsylvania, now contending that he should be named the victor in the presidential contest there or that the state … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump’s false accusations that voter fraud denied him re-election are causing escalating confrontations in swing states across the country, leading to threats of violence against officials in both parties and subverting even the most routine steps in the … Continue reading
Lachlan Markay for the Daily Beast: The good news is that the nation’s top campaign finance watchdog may soon be functional again. The bad news is that its current chairman has gone off the rails.Trey Trainor may not be a … Continue reading
Hasen on Costa on Giuiliani: They are not going to be able to stop certification in any state, and certainly not in enough states.And then what? Face Nancy Pelosi's House? With electoral college slates coming from governors of Michigan, PA, … Continue reading
NBC First Read: Forget Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Or Trump’s impeachment for asking Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.Arguably the biggest political scandal we’ve ever seen in this country is playing right before our eyes: President … Continue reading
NPR: Things did not go well Tuesday for the Trump campaign’s effort to stop certification of the Pennsylvania vote count — which has Joe Biden ahead by more than 73,000 votes.At almost the same time the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, … Continue reading
NYT: In 2016, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina praised the integrity of the nation’s elections system, criticizing claims by Donald J. Trump that the vote was “rigged.”“Like most Americans, I have confidence in our democracy and our election system,” … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: Giuliani’s presence amped up the drama of the hearing and briefly displaced the predominant narrative that the president’s legal challenges have thus far been almost completely unsuccessful. However, it was less clear whether his presence would … Continue reading
NYT: Fifty-nine of the country’s top computer scientists and election security experts rebuked President Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and hacking on Monday, writing that such assertions are “unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.”The rebuttal, in a letter to be … Continue reading
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Michael Wines for the NYT: It was an election where Republican charges of fictitious voter fraud took center stage before, during and after the count, backed by a barrage of lawsuits intent on making it harder to cast or tally … Continue reading
CNN: It is an internet battle cry: Stop the Steal has swept across inboxes, Facebook pages and Twitter like an out-of-control virus, spreading misinformation and violent rhetoric — and spilling into real life, like the protest planned for DC this … Continue reading
NYT: Like similar episodes in Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the scene in Detroit was the culmination of a yearslong strategy by Mr. Trump to use the power of the executive branch, an army of lawyers, the echo chamber … Continue reading
NYT: Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, continued on Saturday his effort to delegitimize votes cast through electronic voting machines, citing several conspiracies connected to the companies that make the machines and the software they run in a post … Continue reading