“GOP states press voter photo ID rules, with unclear effects”

March 26, 2023, 10:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: As Ohio’s primary approaches, a strict new photo ID requirement is stirring concerns for military veterans and out-of-state college students, in Amish communities and among older voters. Other Republican-led states are moving in the same direction as they… Continue reading

“Kari Lake ballot signature challenge: What to know about the claims, the evidence and the law”

March 26, 2023, 10:02 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: In her lengthy lawsuit first filed in December, Lake argued that based on “information and belief,” “a material number” of votes with signatures that were not properly verified were counted and could have altered the outcome of the… Continue reading

“Former Trump Officials Must Testify in 2020 Election Inquiry, Judge Says”

March 25, 2023, 11:23 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: A federal judge has ruled that a number of former officials from President Donald J. Trump’s administration — including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows — cannot invoke executive privilege to avoid testifying to a grand jury investigating… Continue reading

“Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe”

March 24, 2023, 11:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Law360: Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former president Donald Trump. Security has ramped up outside… Continue reading

“Trump, Escalating Attacks, Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged”

March 24, 2023, 7:43 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that “potential death and destruction” may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate OK with Jan. 6 participant”

March 23, 2023, 1:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AP: The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court said Thursday that he had no problem with someone who was on the U.S. Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection campaigning for him across the state in the waning… Continue reading

Rutgers Law Review Symposium: “The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment”

March 23, 2023, 11:19 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Looks like some terrific contributions here: The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment Yael Bromberg In April 2022, Rutgers University Law Review hosted the first law symposium ever to be dedicated to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, resulting in this… Continue reading

Richard Bernstein: “The U.S. Supreme Court Should Vacate and Remand in Moore v. Harper”

March 23, 2023, 7:58 amlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Richard Bernstein, who wrote this amicus brief in Moore v. Harper but who expresses his own views here: Although I wrote and joined an amici brief supporting affirmance in Moore v. Harper, recent… Continue reading

“Fake images of Trump arrest show ‘giant step’ for AI’s disruptive power”

March 23, 2023, 7:35 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, was reading this week about the expected indictment of Donald Trump when he decided he wanted to visualize it. He turned to an AI art generator, giving the technology… Continue reading

“Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake’s election challenge”

March 23, 2023, 7:26 amrecountsRick Hasen

Arizona Republic: Arizona’s top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake’s claims back to a county judge to review. Lake asked… Continue reading

“Fox Argues Top Executives Weren’t Involved in Voter Fraud Broadcasts”

March 22, 2023, 5:14 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Fox Corporation executives, including Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, had no direct involvement in what aired on the company’s cable news channels, and therefore their company should not be found liable in a $1.6 billion defamation case, lawyers for Fox… Continue reading

“Republican Rep. Jim Jordan Issues Sweeping Information Requests to Universities Researching Disinformation”

March 22, 2023, 10:57 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

ProPublica: House Republicans have sent letters to at least three universities and a think tank requesting a broad range of documents related to what it says are the institutions’ contributions to the Biden administration’s “censorship regime.” The letters are the… Continue reading

Wisconsin: “5 takeaways from the only Supreme Court election debate. Daniel Kelly and Janet Protasiewicz take the gloves off.”

March 22, 2023, 7:39 amjudicial electionsRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: For nearly an hour, Kelly and Protasiewicz battled at the State Bar of Wisconsin’s headquarters in Madison — accusing each other of running deceitful campaigns and being an unprecedented danger to the state. Protasiewicz called Kelly one of… Continue reading

“Election Obstruction”

March 22, 2023, 7:35 amelection administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Jason Marisam has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, UCLA Law Review Discourse). Here is the abstract: In 2020 and 2022, multiple Republican county canvassers refused to perform their ministerial duty to approve election returns, obstructing the official certification of… Continue reading