Monthly Archives: June 2021

“They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies”

June 25, 2021, 6:52 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The young couple posing in front of the faux Eiffel Tower at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas fit right in, two people in a sea of idealistic Democrats who had arrived in the city in February 2020 for… Continue reading

“Pence, Diverging From Trump, Says He Was ‘Proud’ to Certify Election”

June 25, 2021, 6:51 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Former Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday night made his most forceful attempt yet to separate himself from his former boss, Donald J. Trump, on the issue of certifying the 2020 election results.Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library… Continue reading

“The Obscure Law That Enabled Trump’s Subversion of the Electoral College”

June 25, 2021, 6:48 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Matt Ford for TNR: Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion about voting rights with two Democratic members of Congress, during which time I took the opportunity to draw their attention to a hitherto… Continue reading

“Inside the ‘shadow reality world’ promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen”

June 25, 2021, 6:45 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The slickly produced movie trailer, set to ominous music, cuts from scenes of the 2020 election to clips of allies of former president Donald Trump describing a vast conspiracy to steal the White House.“The Deep Rig,” a film financed… Continue reading

“Can Manchin answer his predecessor’s call on voting rights?”

June 24, 2021, 2:01 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jennifer Frost and Yael Bromberg in The Hill: With his voting rights proposal last week and a compromise on the all-imperative For the People Act, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) carries forward the vital legacy of his predecessor, former… Continue reading

“Biden campaign workers and ex-state lawmaker sue ‘Trump Train’ members involved in dangerous Texas highway incident” (link to complaints)

June 24, 2021, 1:57 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

CNN: A White House staffer and former Texas state representative are among those suing several participants of a “Trump Train” that allegedly harassed a Biden campaign bus last October in Texas, claiming in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the… Continue reading

My Interview with the New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner: “Can Congress Insure Fair Elections”

June 24, 2021, 12:27 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

You can read it here.

“Giuliani suspended from New York bar; Court ruling cites the former mayor’s ‘false and misleading’ statements on behalf of Trump about 2020 election.”

June 24, 2021, 9:55 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Politico: A New York court has suspended then-President Donald Trump’s most prominent attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, from the practice of law in that state over Giuliani’s claims of rampant fraud during the 2020 presidential election.“We conclude that… Continue reading

“Why Democrats Are Reluctantly Making Voter ID Laws a Bargaining Chip”

June 24, 2021, 9:52 amvoter idRick Hasen

NYT reports.

The draft Colorado map

June 24, 2021, 9:04 amUncategorizedredistrictingNicholas Stephanopoulos

Yesterday, Colorado became the first state to publish a draft congressional map. PlanScore’s analysis of the map is below. It would be slightly skewed in a Republican direction, with an expected efficiency gap of 2.5%, an expected partisan bias of… Continue reading

Committee on House Administration Hearing Thursday: “Voting In America: A National Perspective On The Right To Vote, Methods Of Election, Jurisdictional Boundaries, And Redistricting”

June 23, 2021, 1:02 pmVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Details and livestream.

“The Really Big Fight on Voting Rights Is Just Around the Corner”

June 23, 2021, 11:41 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

From the NYT, my latest piece: With the For the People Act on indefinite hold after a filibuster by Republicans in the Senate on Tuesday, the Voting Rights Act is about to return to center stage in Washington. The… Continue reading

Derek Mueller Interview on the Voting Wars

June 23, 2021, 10:54 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

At The Conversation, Derek offered his perspective on current election law issues. A few excerpts: One group has said that “Americans’ access to the vote is in unprecedented peril.” What do you think?I would not say that. These election… Continue reading

“Top adviser to Dem megadonor privately blasts party’s prioritization of voting rights bill”

June 23, 2021, 10:47 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

From Politico: The top political adviser to one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors privately urged fellow Democrats last week to abandon the push around federal voting rights legislation in favor of legislative items with better chances of passage.Dmitri Mehlhorn,… Continue reading