“Donald Trump attorney coordinated with Ron Johnson to pass false elector document to Mike Pence”

June 23, 2022, 2:25 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Wisconsin State Journal: A former Dane County judge who legally represented President Donald Trump coordinated with U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson to pass documents falsely stating Trump won Wisconsin to then-Vice President Mike Pence as Pence was set to confirm Joe… Continue reading

Livetweeting Today’s January 6 Hearing

June 23, 2022, 12:02 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The thread starts here.

“Liz Cheney Encourages Wyoming Democrats to Change Parties to Vote for Her”

June 23, 2022, 11:49 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican of Wyoming whose polling remains far behind her Trump-endorsed primary challenger as her House committee’s Jan. 6 hearings continue, is urging Democrats in her home state to switch parties to support her in… Continue reading

“As Midterms Loom, Elections Are No Longer Top Priority for Meta C.E.O.”

June 23, 2022, 10:53 amcheap speechRick Hasen

NYT: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, made securing the 2020 U.S. election a top priority. He met regularly with an election team, which included more than 300 people from across his company, to prevent misinformation from spreading on the social… Continue reading

“Federal Authorities Search Home of Trump Justice Dept. Official” (Jeffrey Clark)

June 23, 2022, 10:39 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Federal investigators descended on the home of Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, on Wednesday in connection with the department’s sprawling inquiry into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to people familiar with the matter.It remained… Continue reading

“When Your Vote Doesn’t Matter, Try Switching Ballots”

June 23, 2022, 8:59 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jonathan Robinson and Sean Trende in the Atlantic: Pundits and voters of all stripes lament just how extreme, polarized, and ideological American politics has become. But such grievances rarely come with advice for how ordinary people can address this… Continue reading

Does Today’s Second Amendment Decision Affect the First Amendment and thus Election Law?

June 23, 2022, 8:48 amUncategorizedNed Foley

In his opinion for the Court in the NY gun case, Justice Thomas says that means-ends inquiry will not be part of Second Amendment analysis. On page 15 of his opinion, he goes on to say that this… Continue reading

“America is about to meet Jeffrey Clark, the one DOJ official willing to do Trump’s coup”

June 23, 2022, 7:18 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Ben Jacobs for Vox: Much of what we know about Clark’s actions comes from a deposition from his former colleague Richard Donoghue, who was also acting assistant attorney general. Clark first approached his boss, acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, in… Continue reading

Supreme Court Holds that North Carolina’s Legislative Leaders May Intervene in Lawsuit Over State’s Voter ID Law

June 23, 2022, 7:06 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Justice Gorsuch wrote the opinion for 8 Justices, with Justice Sotomayor the lone dissenter. Key line from the majority opinion which seems right to me: Instead and as we have seen, where a State chooses to divide its sovereign authority… Continue reading

“G.O.P. Testimony at Jan. 6 Panel Exposes a Party Torn Between Truth and Trump”

June 23, 2022, 7:03 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Shane Goldmacher NYT analysis: As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has built its public case that Donald J. Trump was at the center of an attempted coup, the panel has relied heavily on… Continue reading

“What We Lose When We Lose Competitive Congressional Districts”

June 23, 2022, 6:59 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Lee Drutman for 538: Competitive congressional districts have been steadily disappearing for decades. In the current redistricting cycle, six highly competitive districts in the House of Representatives were drawn out of existence. The Cook Political Report estimates that … Continue reading

“DOJ subpoenas Georgia Republican Party chairman as it expands Trump fake elector probe”

June 23, 2022, 6:53 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Federal investigators subpoenaed the Georgia Republican Party chairman for information related to the fake elector scheme there — as the Justice Department has issued a fresh round of subpoenas to people from several states who acted as rogue electors… Continue reading

“Law Enforcement and Election Officials Start Joint National Initiative to Protect Election Officials and Voters from Threats and Violence”

June 23, 2022, 6:45 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Release via email: Today, more than two dozen current and former law enforcement and election officials from across the country announced the formation of the Committee for Safe and Secure Elections (CSSE). The committee is a cross-partisan national initiative that… Continue reading

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment: the Jan. 6 hearings provide reason to invoke this clause

June 23, 2022, 5:40 amUncategorizedNed Foley

With all the talk about whether the evidence presented at the January 6 committee’s hearings provide a basis for prompting Merrick Garland to bring criminal charges against Trump, the public discussion of how best to protect the nation’s democracy from… Continue reading

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