Category Archives: fraudulent fraud squad

LULAC v. PILF settle two different lawsuits

July 17, 2019, 5:17 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squad, voter registrationJustin Levitt

Well, one lawsuit, really, over publishing identifying information of individuals incorrectly accused of committing voter fraud. But you’d never know it was the same suit from reading the press releases. Plaintiffs here, defendants here. (Disclosure: I helped one… Continue reading

“Trump jokes to Putin: ‘Don’t meddle in the election'”

June 28, 2019, 9:44 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: Trump spoke to reporters briefly before he and Putin were scheduled to talk for an hour to discuss a series of national security issues, including Iran’s recent aggression, the civil war in Syria, where the United States… Continue reading

“PANTS ON FIRE: Trump’s latest California voter fraud claim as baseless as past allegations”

June 24, 2019, 8:49 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

PolitiFact reports.

“Trump makes yet another false claim about California voter fraud”

June 24, 2019, 9:12 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Daniel Dale reports for CNN.

Axios: Trump Transition Team Vetting Documents for Kris Kobach Worried About White Supremacist Ties

June 23, 2019, 3:54 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Axios: Nearly 100 internal Trump transition vetting documents leaked to “Axios on HBO” identify a host of “red flags” about officials who went on to get some of the most powerful jobs in the U.S. government. Why it matters: … Continue reading

Trump Again Falsely Suggests 1 Million Fraudulent Votes in California, Citing Judicial Watch

June 23, 2019, 12:20 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

From the Meet the Press transcript: CHUCK TODD:You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote. That bothered you, didn’t it?PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP:Well, I think it was a — I mean, I’ll say something that, again, is… Continue reading

“Judge: Voter Fraud Panel Emails About Potential Members Can Be Withheld, For Now”

June 21, 2019, 10:44 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TPM: A federal judge is letting the Trump administration continue to withhold certain emails related to the Trump voter fraud commission while the government appeals her order that the emails be produced for a Democrat who was on the… Continue reading

“Judge Reveals New Info About Trump Voter Fraud Panel Communications”

June 13, 2019, 8:19 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TPM: Before they were formally named to President Trump’s now disbanded voter fraud commission, two conservative activists emailed the commission’s vice chair Kris Kobach about “potential Democratic commissioners,” a federal judge revealed Thursday.The revelation came in a legal dispute… Continue reading

DOJ Relents and Releases Additional Names (Charles Cooper and John Fund) Which Were Redacted on “Inflammatory” von Spakovsky Email About Pence-Kobach “Voter Fraud” Commission

June 13, 2019, 11:18 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Campaign Legal Center: After nearly two years of seeking to hide the names of individuals involved in an inflammatory email to Attorney General Sessions regarding the Pence-Kobach Commission, the Department of Justice has relented in light of a district… Continue reading

“Texas Tried to Mess with Voting. It Failed.”

June 11, 2019, 10:59 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

TAP reports.

“Judge Hints Trump Admin Misled Court About Voter Fraud Panel Appointment Dates”

June 11, 2019, 10:46 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

TPM: President Trump’s voter fraud commission has been dead for nearly a year and a half.But the litigation spurred by its lack of transparency continues, with a judge on Tuesday suggesting that the administration misled the court about the… Continue reading

“Texas ditched its botched voter roll review but has signaled it hasn’t closed its criminal inquiry”

June 5, 2019, 9:54 amfraudulent fraud squad, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Alexa Ura for the Texas Tribune: When former Secretary of State David Whitley launched a review of the Texas voter rolls for supposed noncitizens, his office marked almost 100,000 voters for two reviews — one by county officials to question… Continue reading

“Emails show Texas governor requested the voter purge that used flawed data”

June 4, 2019, 1:58 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

San Antonio Express News: In an August 2018 email from John Crawford, a top official of the driver’s license division at the Texas Department of Public Safety, to an employee, Crawford said DPS had run data of licensed drivers to… Continue reading