“Colorado Republicans back election denier for Senate primary”

April 10, 2022, 12:19 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Colorado Republicans on Saturday voted to place on their U.S. Senate primary ballot a state representative who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol and is a supporter of former President Donald Trump’s… Continue reading

“Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, in Wild New Campaign Ad: ‘The Fake News, Big Tech and Blue State Liberals Stole the Election from President Trump’”

April 10, 2022, 12:15 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Mediaite: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey (R) went all in on Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” with her campaign ad blasting those who supposedly “stole” the election from the former president.Ivey left little room for subtlety in her video titled… Continue reading

Mary Anne Franks in Balkinization Symposium on “Cheap Speech:” “Who Pays for Cheap Speech?”

April 10, 2022, 12:12 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

Mary Anne Franks has written this post for the Balkinization symposium on my cheap speech book. Her contribution begins: Who pays for cheap speech? According to Richard Hasen, the answer is all of us. His book provides a compelling account… Continue reading

“With New York District Lines On Hold, Judge Blesses Possible Backup Plan”

April 9, 2022, 1:47 pmredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: A New York appeals court judge on Friday signed off on the appointment of a neutral expert to prepare new congressional district lines that could be used if the state’s highest court upholds a lower-court ruling that struck down… Continue reading

“Donations Steered to Trump Super PAC by Canadian Are Found to Be Illegal”

April 8, 2022, 2:50 pmcampaign financeRick Hasen

NYT: A Canadian steel industry billionaire illegally helped steer $1.75 million in donations to a pro-Trump super PAC and has agreed to pay one of the largest fines ever levied by the Federal Election Commission to settle the case, the… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: ‘We control them all’: Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ideas for overturning 2020 election before it was called”

April 8, 2022, 1:26 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term,… Continue reading

“On Steve Bannon podcast, Michael Gableman appeals to Trump supporters for help keeping the doors open on his Wisconsin election review”

April 8, 2022, 12:36 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice overseeing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans is warning supporters of former President Donald Trump that Speaker Robin Vos wants to dismantle his Brookfield office within… Continue reading

“Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’”

April 8, 2022, 7:14 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: A legal effort to disqualify from re-election lawmakers who participated in events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol expanded on Thursday, when a cluster of voters and a progressive group filed suit against three elected… Continue reading

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

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