Monthly Archives: February 2021

“The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election”

February 4, 2021, 2:05 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Molly Ball for Time: A second odd thing happened amid Trump’s attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump’s candidacy and supported his policies, called on… Continue reading

“Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?”

February 4, 2021, 8:22 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Democracy’s Denominator”

February 4, 2021, 7:45 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

Jowei Chen and I just posted this article, forthcoming in the California Law Review, on the consequences of changing the unit of apportionment from persons to adult citizens. The abstract is below: What would happen if states stopped equalizing districts’… Continue reading

“No Evidence for Voter Fraud: A Guide To Statistical Claims About the 2020 Election”

February 3, 2021, 1:50 pmElection Meltdown, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Andrew C. Eggers, Haritz Garro, and Justin Grimmer have posted this draft on Dropbox. Here is the abstract: After the 2020 US presidential election Donald Trump refused to concede, alleging widespread and unparalleled voter fraud. Trump’s supporters deployed several statistical… Continue reading

“Justice Department rescinds two Trump-era voting directives”

February 3, 2021, 1:36 pmDepartment of JusticeRick Hasen

CNN: The Justice Department on Tuesday rescinded two voting-related memos issued by the Trump administration, including one that prompted a public corruption prosecutor to step down from his post because it upended decades of department policy on voter fraud investigations… Continue reading

“Trump Supporters’ Own Explanations For Assaulting The Capitol Are Undercutting His Impeachment Defense”

February 3, 2021, 8:11 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Zoe Tillman for BuzzFeed: Former president Donald Trump formally responded Tuesday to the charges filed by House Democrats in his second impeachment, denying that he incited a mob to violently descend on the Capitol building to stop Congress from certifying… Continue reading

“The Self-Destructive Downside to Corporate Political Spending; There are risks to the bottom line when a firm’s shadowy political donations run counter to its image of social responsibility”

February 3, 2021, 8:07 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

Bill Snyder at Stanford Business.

“Election workers weren’t surprised by the Capitol riot. Trump’s supporters targeted them first.”

February 3, 2021, 8:04 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Jane Timm for NBC News.

“Trump doubles down on false election claim in impeachment response”

February 2, 2021, 8:12 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: Trump’s legal team filed its first official response to the House’s impeachment charge later Tuesday, denying that the former president sought to subvert the election results and incited the violence at the Capitol. The submission foreshadowed Trump’s legal strategy… Continue reading

“Why the G.O.P. Argument Against Trying Trump Is So Dangerous”

February 2, 2021, 8:05 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Bob Bauer NYT oped: So less than a month after the events of Jan. 6, the impeachment process might be foundering on the remarkable claim — one that some senators seem to have adopted disingenuously so that they can… Continue reading

“The Peril and Promise of Redistricting Reform in H.R. 1”

February 2, 2021, 7:44 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

Mike Parsons for the Harvard Law Review Blog.

Attorney Lin Wood, Who Has Posited Bonkers Conspiracy Theories About the 2020 Election, May Have Voted Illegally in Georgia While Being a South Carolina Resident

February 2, 2021, 4:07 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Wow again.

Just Watch This

February 2, 2021, 4:04 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

wow Newsmax invites Mike Lindell, who advocated for a coup and spews dangerous conspiracy theories, on air. It didn't go well. pic.twitter.com/6xzSgXlHua— Jason S. Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) February 2, 2021

More on Small Donors: “Hawley rakes in grassroots cash after Capitol attack”

February 2, 2021, 10:10 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

From Axios: January was Sen. Josh Hawley’s best fundraising month—by far—since his 2018 election, with a flood of small-dollar donations more than eclipsing the corporate cash he lost after leading an effort to block certification of President Biden’s Electoral… Continue reading