“Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence’s second script rewrite”

March 16, 2022, 7:26 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.Pence’s decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language as he… Continue reading

“The Trailer: Decertify the 2020 election? In Wisconsin, it may be on the ballot”

March 16, 2022, 7:20 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Weigel.

I Was on CAP’s “The Tent” Pod, Talking About My “Cheap Speech” Book

March 16, 2022, 7:14 amcheap speechRick Hasen

You can listen here.

“Wisconsin Elections Commission won’t sanction Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020”

March 15, 2022, 1:21 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.

“The Election Police are Coming”

March 15, 2022, 1:19 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN reports.

Bauer and Ginsberg on 60 Minutes Overtime: “Helping election officials who are threatened”

March 15, 2022, 11:27 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Watch here.

“Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings”

March 15, 2022, 7:24 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: A document found by federal prosecutors in the possession of a far-right leader contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, people familiar with the document said on… Continue reading

“Ginni Thomas Says She Attended Jan. 6 Rally; The disclosure by the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas is likely to raise new questions about her support of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”

March 15, 2022, 7:23 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Democratic Group Says Trump Is Breaking Campaign Law by Not Declaring for 2024”

March 15, 2022, 7:22 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election”

March 15, 2022, 7:21 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms of court supervision, fearing they could be misled into committing political violence… Continue reading

Podcast on “Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the West”

March 15, 2022, 7:03 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes

Yale Law School professors Sam Moyn and David Schleicher have a terrific podcast devoted to discussing new work in legal scholarship. I was pleased to be asked to speak, and be questioned about, my current work on what I call… Continue reading

“‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud”

March 14, 2022, 10:54 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: Any thought they’d had that the atmosphere might calm down was gone. What amounted to a grass-roots uprising had gained momentum, become more organized and started coming after the election office.New people had been showing up for the… Continue reading

David Folkenflik for NPR: “Could libel lawsuits squash misinformation?”

March 14, 2022, 7:35 amcheap speechRick Hasen

David Folkenflik asks attorney John Langford about using libel laws to combat misinformation in the media.

“Short-Term SCOTUS Win for Democrats, Long Term Worry”

March 14, 2022, 6:58 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

I spoke to Bloomberg Radio’s June Grasso about the independent state legislature theory and SCOTUS.

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