“Florida’s effort to charge 20 people with voter fraud has hit some roadblocks”

December 22, 2022, 8:55 amfelon votingRick Hasen

NPR: Back in August, Florida officials announced they were charging 20 people with alleged voter fraud. It was the first big set of cases investigated by the state’s new election crimes unit, which was created at the urging of Republican… Continue reading

“No evidence of misconduct in first day of Kari Lake election-challenge trial”

December 22, 2022, 8:49 amfraudulent fraud squad, recountsRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: The first day of an evidence trial based on an election-challenge lawsuit by Republican governor candidate Kari Lake raised plentiful suspicions but did not reveal evidence of the misconduct she alleged. Lake, a Republican endorsed by former President… Continue reading

Jan. 6 Committee Has Released Transcripts of Some Witness Deposition Interviews, Including John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark

December 21, 2022, 3:12 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

List here. Here’s a snippet of Eastman’s deposition:

“Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy”

December 21, 2022, 2:59 pmjudicial elections, redistrictingRick Hasen

AP: Ohio Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor isn’t rattled on a personal level by the political attacks she endured from fellow Republicans during Ohio’s protracted redistricting fight. She’s confident she “did the right thing” in ruling their proposed political maps… Continue reading

“In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims”

December 21, 2022, 2:58 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: On Nov. 30, 2020, Sean Hannity hosted Sidney Powell on his prime-time Fox News program. As she had in many other interviews around that time — on Fox and elsewhere in right-wing media — Ms. Powell, a former… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee postpones release of final report on Capitol attack, Trump”

December 21, 2022, 2:42 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The report is now expected Thursday.

“Tech companies may have to cough up research data under this bill”

December 21, 2022, 9:16 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: Tech companies including YouTube, TikTok and Facebook could be forced to turn over more data to outside researchers under a major bipartisan proposal set to be formally introduced Wednesday. The updated Platform Accountability and Transparency Act would require… Continue reading

“What Truly Reckoning With Trump’s Insurrection Would Look Like”

December 21, 2022, 7:18 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Garrett Graff for Politico: What’s been notable — and worrisome — about the scandals of the Trump years is how little the appetite for subsequent reform has been. The Jan. 6 Committee, which will surely be regarded by history as… Continue reading

Politico Deep Dive into Marc Elias

December 21, 2022, 7:14 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Politico: Founded last year by longtime Democratic operative Marc Elias — he was Hillary Clinton’s legal counsel during her failed 2016 campaign — the firm has become the central node of the official Democratic Party’s legal strategy. With 80 lawyers… Continue reading

Arizona: “Abraham Hamadeh lawsuit will go to trial, request to inspect ballots approved”

December 21, 2022, 7:01 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AZ Mirror: Abraham Hamadeh got the green light from a Mohave County Superior Court judge to go to trial over an election he says was compromised by misconduct. Earlier this month, Republican Hamadeh filed a lawsuit alleging that his… Continue reading

“Kari Lake ‘excited’ over election trial but Katie Hobbs won’t have to testify”

December 21, 2022, 6:58 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Kari Lake told fans Tuesday she was excited to prove elections are “truly corrupt” at an upcoming two-day trial ordered in her lawsuit challenging election results that show she lost to Democratic rival Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County Superior… Continue reading

“Informant warned FBI weeks before Jan. 6 that the far-right saw Trump tweet as ‘a call to arms'”

December 21, 2022, 6:56 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Ryan Reilly for NBC News: On Dec. 19, 2020, the day that then-President Donald Trump sent a tweet summoning his supporters to a “wild” protest in the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, one of the FBI’s own confidential… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Trump’s former White House ethics lawyer told Cassidy Hutchinson to give misleading testimony to January 6 committee, sources say”

December 20, 2022, 3:43 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: The January 6 committee made a startling allegation on Monday, claiming it had evidence that a Trump-backed attorney urged a key witness to mislead the committee about details they recalled. Though the committee declined to identify the people, CNN… Continue reading

“A Day of Constitutional Reckoning Approaches; Section 2 of the 14th Amendment was designed to strip congressional districts from states that disenfranchise voters. It’s never been implemented.”

December 20, 2022, 3:39 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Michael Meltsner for TAP: This month, a special three-judge federal district court, and the Supreme Court eventually, will be asked to resurrect 135 words of the Constitution that have never been enforced, even though they were specifically intended to ensure… Continue reading