Monthly Archives: October 2021

“A Judge’s Guide to Redistricting”

October 14, 2021, 11:45 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Announcement via email: The Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Electoral Innovation Lab have announced the publication of A Judge’s Guide to Redistricting. This Guide is designed to help state court judges handle inevitable litigation during this redistricting cycle, by providing… Continue reading

“GOP unity on FEC shattered, future uncertain”

October 14, 2021, 9:55 amfederal election commissionRick Hasen

Washington Examiner: Long-standing Republican unity on the Federal Election Commission, especially against liberal efforts to expand rules to punish GOP candidates, appears to be in jeopardy with the arrival of a new member who has stirred controversy by… Continue reading

“Senate to vote on Manchin-backed voting rights proposal”

October 14, 2021, 9:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Axios: The Senate will vote next week on a new voting rights bill backed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in a letter to colleagues on Thursday.Why it matters: The Freedom To Vote… Continue reading

Election Security Officials Worried About Potential Expansion of Online Voting in Defense Bill

October 14, 2021, 9:51 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Letter.

“Calls intensify to end Wisconsin’s election review amid blunders by ex-judge in charge”

October 14, 2021, 9:44 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The glaring errors became clear soon after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state’s 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least one was… Continue reading

Partisan Fairness Criteria in Action

October 14, 2021, 8:48 amUncategorizedredistrictingNicholas Stephanopoulos

One of the last decade’s most interesting redistricting developments was the adoption of explicit partisan fairness criteria by Michigan and Ohio (sites of two of the 2010s’ most egregious gerrymanders). In Michigan, the new independent commission is required to draw… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Panel with Dahlia Lithwick and Larry Mantle on the Supreme Court’s Upcoming Potentially Momentous Term

October 14, 2021, 7:01 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Great conversation:

“Time Is Running Out to Indict Trump for His Sex Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels”

October 13, 2021, 6:55 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The Daily Beast reports.

Philadephia: “Mark Squilla Staffer Charged in South Philly Voter Fraud Conspiracy”

October 13, 2021, 6:53 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

This one looks troubling, because it is a crime committed by an election official: According to prosecutors, the conspiracy involved Beren and an individual currently identified in the complaint only as Consultant #1, who is described as a… Continue reading

Jeffrey Clark Apparently Booted from Work at Conservative Legal Group NCLA, Without Any Acknowledgement from Group He Might Have Been Fired for Trying to Steal the 2020 Election

October 13, 2021, 4:00 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

News: Whoa! Did @NCLALegal fire Jeffrey Clark and pull a @fedsoc and boot the person for fomenting insurrection while not publicly announcing that's what they were doing? (On FedSoc, see here: https://t.co/DIQ10nk7tV, https://t.co/RjCPB26pxt). https://t.co/CkrNYC391B— Rick Hasen… Continue reading

Trump Says That “If We Don’t Solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020,” Republican Voters Will Stay Home in 2022 and 2024

October 13, 2021, 2:24 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This seems to escalate the Big Lie and put Republicans in a tough position: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1448386456406347786?s=20

Watch Archived Video of Today’s Knight First Amendment Institute Event: “Lies and Elections: The electoral context and the regulation of lies”

October 13, 2021, 1:03 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

You can now watch video of this event at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Law, featuring Janell Byrd-Chichester, Atiba Ellis, Matt Perault, and me, moderated by Genevieve Lakier. It was a great conversation!

“How close were we to an actual stolen election — stolen by Trump?”

October 13, 2021, 9:41 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Aaron Blake for WaPo: The picture of Donald Trump’s scheme to get the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 election has been significantly filled out in recent weeks. First came the disclosure that conservative lawyer John Eastman had… Continue reading

“Remedying Intimidating Voter Disinformation Through § 1985(3)’s Support Or Advocacy Clauses”

October 13, 2021, 8:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Michael Weingartner has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The 2020 election witnessed the continued shift of voter intimidation from the polling place to cyberspace. As social media and online tools provide bad actors with an unprecedented… Continue reading

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