Election Law Academics Update

August 9, 2022, 11:22 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Here’s my yearly roundup of election law academic hires, promotions moves, visits, accolades: Tabatha Abu-el Haj will be visiting at Penn in Spring 2023. Ellen Aprill has retired and is now the John E. Anderson Chair in Tax Law Emerita… Continue reading

Donald Trump Is Not Going to Be Disqualified from Running for Office Even If He’s Been Found to Have Illegally Taken Classified Documents, But Congress Could Still Disqualify Him from Running for His 2020 Election Subversion Activities

August 8, 2022, 5:50 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Today in a remarkable development FBI agents raided Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. The search may be related to classified documents that Trump allegedly took from the White House illegally. (The search could have been about something else, like January… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with MSNBC’s Symone Sanders About the Danger of Election Deniers Running Elections and How Congress Could Pass Legislation to Lessen the Risk of Stolen Elections

August 8, 2022, 5:36 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Watch here:

Jane Mayer Connects Increasing Extremism in Ohio’s Legislature to Gerrymandering and Big Money in Politics

August 8, 2022, 2:23 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Here in The New Yorker.

Announcing the Fall Webinar Series for the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law

August 8, 2022, 11:22 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

I’m thrilled to announce the fall schedule for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. All events (aside from the co-sponsored event with Stanford) start at 12 pm Pacific online and require free registration. Can Proposed New Congressional Legislation on Counting… Continue reading

Must Read Michael Wines in the NYT: “Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders. They’re Being Used Anyway.”

August 8, 2022, 7:54 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did. In years past,… Continue reading

“Were Facebook and Twitter Consistent in Labeling Misleading Posts During the 2020 Election?”

August 8, 2022, 7:43 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Samantha Bradshaw and Shelby Grossman at Lawfare: Editor’s Note: To fight election-related misinformation, social media platforms often apply labels that let users know the information from a post is misleading in some way. Samantha Bradshaw of American University and… Continue reading

“Common Cause & NC residents file lawsuit to let unaffiliated voters serve on State Board of Elections”

August 8, 2022, 7:42 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Release.

“The Andrew Goodman Foundation Reacts To Proposed Elimination Of On-Campus Early Voting Locations in Fulton County, Georgia”

August 8, 2022, 7:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Release.

“In Wisconsin, G.O.P. Voters Demand the Impossible: Decertifying 2020”

August 8, 2022, 7:37 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: When she started her campaign for governor of Wisconsin, former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, a Republican, acknowledged that President Biden had been legitimately elected.She soon backtracked. Eventually, she said the 2020 election had been “rigged” against former… Continue reading

“Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show”

August 8, 2022, 7:34 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Reuters: he Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald Trump’s false election-fraud claims, according to a Reuters analysis of court filings and… Continue reading

“Five US States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen”

August 8, 2022, 7:33 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Bloomberg: In the last two years, Republicans have sought to remove state officials who wouldn’t manufacture votes and falsely declare him the winner. They changed the way elections are run in response to his conspiracy theories. Most importantly, they’ve… Continue reading

ECA reform must comply with the Constitution, as the bipartisan Senate ECRA bill does (but as some proposals to revise it would not)

August 7, 2022, 5:50 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

The bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act has no “fatal flaw,” as some incorrectly argue. Rather, the Senate bill is well-designed to suit its essential purpose of requiring ballots cast in presidential elections be counted according to the rules established… Continue reading

Michael McConnell and I Discuss and Debate the Electoral Count Act Reform Bill and the Independent State Legislature Theory for the National Constitution Center

August 6, 2022, 1:03 pmUncategorizedRichard Pildes

For the National Constitution Center’s podcast, the Center’s President and CEO, Jeff Rosen, moderated this discussion. Available at this link.

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