“John Roberts’s Long Game; Is This the End of the Voting Rights Act?”

September 20, 2022, 1:51 pmSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

Linda Greenhouse in The Atlantic: Back in February, in a 5–4 vote, the Court’s conservative majority temporarily blocked the district court’s order; the majority didn’t even deign to issue an opinion explaining its reasoning. The justices’ audacious move freed Alabama… Continue reading

“Behind the Campaign to Put Election Deniers in Charge of Elections; The states’ secretaries of state are supposed to insure election integrity, but a far-right coalition seeks to transform that office”

September 20, 2022, 1:49 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Sue Halpern in The New Yorker.

Good Indication That Republicans in the House Would Not Be Open to Fixing the Electoral Count Act Should They Retake the House

September 20, 2022, 10:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

See these comments from Rep. Scalise on the Cheney-Lofgren bill: Scalise recommends no vote on bill to update the Electoral Count Act. Scalise office says it’s “the Democrats’ latest attempt at a federal takeover of elections in order to… Continue reading

Georgetown SALPAL Virtual Event 9/29: “Upcoming: Independent State Legislature Theory and the States”

September 20, 2022, 10:49 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

SALPAL: Join us virtually for a conversation with Professors Rick Pildes and Carolyn Shapiro and attorney Jason Torchinsky on September 29th at 4 p.m. Eastern.RSVP here to receive the link.The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider the… Continue reading

CDT 9/28 Event: “The Big Lie’s Long Tail: Election Denialism in the Midterms and Beyond”

September 20, 2022, 8:56 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Announcement via email: The Big Lie’s Long Tail: Election Denialism in the Midterms and Beyond 9/28 @ 3pm Eastern Eventbrite registration page The “Big Lie,” the denial that the 2020 election outcome was legitimate, continues to have ongoing, harmful effects… Continue reading

Arizona Secretary of State Candidate Mark Finchem: Biden Winning Arizona (in 2020 or 2024) is a “Fantasy”

September 20, 2022, 8:52 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Charlotte Alter: https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/1572219894468419587

Giving Constitution Day Lecture at the University of Utah This Friday (Sept. 23) on “Cheap Speech” and Threats to American Democracy

September 20, 2022, 8:18 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Looking forward to this! Details here.

“Videos Show Trump Allies Handling Georgia Voting Equipment”

September 20, 2022, 8:16 amchicanery, election subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

NYT: Newly released videos show allies of former President Donald J. Trump and contractors who were working on his behalf handling sensitive voting equipment in a rural Georgia county weeks after the 2020 election.The footage, which was made public as… Continue reading

“Trump’s ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers”

September 20, 2022, 7:58 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: The 2020 election and its turbulent aftermath fueled a powerful generation of online influencers, a Washington Post data analysis has found, producing sky-high follower counts for an array of conservatives who echoed Trump’s false claims of election fraud, known… Continue reading

“Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System”

September 20, 2022, 7:53 amalternative voting systemsRick Hasen

NYT: If there’s one thing we know about America’s creaking democracy, it’s this: Whenever it seems fundamentally broken, people get together to try to fix it.That’s happening now. We’re living through one of the United States’ periodic bursts of… Continue reading

“Michael Gableman, who produced no evidence of 2020 election fraud in $1 million review, now suggests the country needs revolution”

September 20, 2022, 7:48 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman told a group of Republicans this month that a revolution against government officials over the 2020 election has become necessary but said people have become too comfortable to water the “tree… Continue reading

“Congress’ latest House-Senate wrangle: Preventing the next Jan. 6”

September 20, 2022, 7:46 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Politico: Efforts to reform an obscure 135-year-old election law, which Donald Trump tried to utilize to subvert the 2020 election, are reviving a classic congressional rivalry: the House vs. the Senate.After signaling for months that they wanted to go further… Continue reading

“A landmark Supreme Court fight over social media now looks likely”

September 20, 2022, 7:44 amcheap speech, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

WaPo: Conflicting lower court rulings about removing controversial material from social media platforms point toward a landmark Supreme Court decision on whether the First Amendment protects Big Tech’s editorial discretion or forbids its censorship of unpopular views.The stakes are high… Continue reading

Recording of Webinar on Alaska’s Ranked Choice Voting

September 19, 2022, 5:55 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

Now available on the Election Law at Ohio State website. Well worth watching for those unavailable to see it live. Among the many interesting and informative points discussed by the panel was the fact that the candidate who won the… Continue reading