Monthly Archives: April 2022

Eugene Volokh for “Cheap Speech” Balkinization Symposium: “Should We Regulate Foreign Speech?”

April 8, 2022, 6:49 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Eugene Volokh’s contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book begins: Rick Hasen’s book identifies a tremendously serious problem; and it offers only modest solutions. And rightly so, I think: As the book correctly points out, more aggressive… Continue reading

“Big Outside Spending on Election Denial Floods Local Elections in Battleground States”

April 7, 2022, 3:05 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Brennan Center: Tuesday’s local elections in and around Green Bay, Wisconsin, were the focus of big spending by outside groups pushing narratives around election denial — claims that the 2020 presidential election was so marred by fraud that it… Continue reading

Glad to Be on the Inaugural Podcast, SpeechMatters, for the UC Free Speech and Civic Engagement Center, Talking About “Cheap Speech”

April 7, 2022, 12:58 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

You can listen to my conversation with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement executive director Michelle Deutchman at this link.

“Arizona AG Mark Brnovich’s letter offers no proof of 2020 election fraud”

April 7, 2022, 7:41 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Arizona’s Republican attorney general issued an interim report Wednesday on his review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that outlined his concerns with some election procedures but did not provide proof of any major issues despite six months… Continue reading

Julie Cohen for “Cheap Speech” Balkinization Symposium: “A Systems Approach to Cheap Speech: Flash Trades, Engagement Levers, and Destabilization Attacks”

April 7, 2022, 7:39 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Julie Cohen’s contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book begins: Rick Hasen’s timely and important book links disinformation-based strategies for election manipulation to the platform-based, massively intermediated information infrastructures that enable them. This essential contribution comes… Continue reading

“Trump deflects blame for Jan. 6 silence, says he wanted to march to Capitol”

April 7, 2022, 7:35 amchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Josh Dawsey for WaPo: Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi… Continue reading

“Assessing the Legality of Ohio Supreme Court’s Decision to Deny Moving Primary Election Date”

April 7, 2022, 6:50 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Mark Brown for Jurist.

Montana Vote Suppression Decision

April 6, 2022, 7:29 pmUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

A Montana trial court granted a preliminary injunction today in a set of consolidated cases challenging a number of suppressive laws passed late in the 2021 Montana legislative session (Montana Democratic Party v. Jacobsen; Western Native Voice v. Jacobsen; and… Continue reading

“Dissatisfied With Their Party, Wealthy Republican Donors Form Secret Coalitions”

April 6, 2022, 12:59 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

NYT: A new coalition of wealthy conservative benefactors that says it aims to “disrupt but advance the Republican agenda” gathered this week for a private summit in South Florida that included closed-door addresses from former President Donald J. Trump and… Continue reading

“Once again, Alabama is the battleground over Black voting rights”

April 6, 2022, 12:51 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Driving through downtown one misty, humid morning, Evan Milligan pointed out landmarks historic and personal. There once stood the Black barbershop where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. got his hair cut. There was the street corner where Rosa… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee frustrations with DOJ grow as contempt vote looms”

April 6, 2022, 12:29 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: As the House is poised to vote Wednesday on holding two former Trump aides in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with Jan. 6-related subpoenas, frustrations are mounting inside the committee investigating the attack over the Justice Department’s… Continue reading

“Almost 25,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in Texas for its March 1 primary election”

April 6, 2022, 11:54 amabsentee ballots, election administrationRick Hasen

NPR: A total of 24,636 mail-in ballots were rejected throughout Texas in the March 1 primary election, the Texas secretary of state’s office said Wednesday.That’s a 12.38% rejection rate — far higher than in previous contests.Local election officials,… Continue reading

New “Elections Matter 2022” Series

April 6, 2022, 9:33 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

This midterm election season the Elections Research Center and State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will co-host a series called “Election Matters 2022.” This event series will bring together diverse experts to tackle evolving election-related… Continue reading

Dan Tokaji for “Cheap Speech” Balkinization Symposium: “Why State Courts May Be Democracy’s Last Line of Defense”

April 6, 2022, 7:39 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Dan Tokaji has the first post up in a new Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book. (Other contributors are: Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), Julie Cohen (Georgetown), Yasmin Dawood (Toronto), Mary Anne Franks (Miami), Dan Tokaji (Wisconsin), and Eugene Volokh (UCLA).).… Continue reading

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