Monthly Archives: September 2022

“Federal grand jury probing Trump PAC’s formation, fundraising efforts: Sources”

September 8, 2022, 6:38 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

ABC News: A federal grand jury investigating the activities leading up the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and the push by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the result of the 2020 election has expanded… Continue reading

FEC on 6-0 Vote Rejects Complaint Against Mark Zuckerberg and Others for Campaign Finance Violations Based on Grants to Help Local Administrators Run Elections During Covid

September 8, 2022, 6:25 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

They say no good deed goes unpunished, but this one mercifully was rejected 6-0. I’ve been very critical of Facebook for how it has handled election-related content. But these grants by Zuckerberg and Chan (his spouse) were extremely helpful… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Routledge Handbook of Election Law: Disputed Elections in Africa and the Role of Courts

September 8, 2022, 6:25 amcomparative election law, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner some of the authors of the Routledge Handbook of Election Law. Here is the final of three posts, by Ugochukwu Ezeh. Ugochukwu Ezeh The judicialisation of electoral disputes has emerged… Continue reading

“A Long-Shot Push to Bar Trump in 2024 as an ‘Insurrectionist'”

September 7, 2022, 5:58 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Democrats and liberal groups, determined to find a way to bar former President Donald J. Trump from returning to office, are preparing a variety of ways to disqualify him, including drafting new legislation and readying a flurry of lawsuits… Continue reading

“A QAnon-Touting Election Denier Could Soon Run This Swing State’s Elections”

September 7, 2022, 5:30 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Cameron Joseph for Vice News: In June 2020, stuck at home with her kids and growing increasingly infuriated by the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Toni Shuppe binge-watched a QAnon conspiracy theory video series that changed her life—and altered… Continue reading

“Michigan GOP leaders encourage rule breaking at poll worker training session”

September 7, 2022, 5:27 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: The evening before Michigan’s state primary, Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers — warning them about “bad stuff happening” during the election and encouraging them to ignore local… Continue reading

“Proposed ‘Defend Elections and National Democracy’ (DEFEND) Act”

September 7, 2022, 5:19 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Bryan Wildenthal has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper presents a proposed Act of Congress which would block all state restrictions on voting rights, or other state laws affecting federal elections, enacted after January 6,… Continue reading

“The Dark Money Groups Spending Big to Shape the Supreme Court are the Same Groups That Spent Millions Pushing Trump’s Big Lie and Funding Insurrectionists

September 7, 2022, 2:46 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

From the summary of the Accountable.US report: SUMMARY: Judicial Crisis Network, The 85 Fund, and their affiliated groups have spent tens of millions of dollars in dark money to shape the Supreme Court. This largely concealed network of right-wing organizations,… Continue reading

Must Read Michael Wines NYT: “In Voter Fraud, Penalties Often Depend on Who’s Voting”

September 7, 2022, 10:00 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Michael Wines for the NYT: After 15 years of scrapes with the police, the last thing that 33-year-old Therris L. Conney needed was another run-in with the law. He got one anyway two years ago, after election officials held a… Continue reading

“How a Billionaire’s ‘Attack Philanthropy’ Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes”

September 7, 2022, 7:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

ProPublica: Last month, The Lever and ProPublica as well as The New York Times detailed how Seid secretly handed a $1.6 billion fortune to a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority that recently eliminated federal protections for… Continue reading

“The Election Official Who Tried to Prove ‘Stop the Steal:’ How a group of conspiracy theorists enlisted a county clerk in Colorado to find evidence that the 2020 vote was rigged.”

September 7, 2022, 7:27 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker on the Tina Peters saga.

ELB Book Corner: Routledge Handbook of Election Law: What a Comparative Study of Election Law Teaches Us About Democracy

September 7, 2022, 7:00 amcomparative election law, ELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner some of the authors of the Routledge Handbook of Election Law. Here is the second of three posts, by David Schultz. David Schultz Freedom House notes that after a… Continue reading

Missouri Files Bonkers Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Case Arguing That Not Even Congress Can Limit a State Legislature’s Partisan Gerrymandering

September 6, 2022, 8:53 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The main dispute in Moore v. Harper, currently pending before the Supreme Court, is whether state legislatures may be constrained by other state actors (such as state courts applying state constitutional provisions protecting voting rights) when they pass rules… Continue reading

Important Amicus Brief in Moore v. Harper Case Filed by Conference of Supreme Court Justices

September 6, 2022, 6:00 pmlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This brief is well done (Carter Phillips/Evan Caminker) but also important in that it represents the views of Chief Justices of states from across the political spectrum. Tom Wolf tweet thread explains the brief’s significance. From the Brief’s summary of… Continue reading

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