Wisconsin: “Judge rules Robin Vos, Michael Gableman violated public records law by withholding documents”

March 3, 2022, 6:55 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the former Supreme Court justice he hired to review the 2020 election violated the state’s public records law by refusing to turn over some documents to a liberal group that requested them… Continue reading

“‘Under threat’: Colorado clerks targeted by election conspiracy groups seeking access to voting equipment”

March 3, 2022, 6:50 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Denver Post reports.

“First Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack”

March 3, 2022, 6:47 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021, to keep President Biden from taking office.Joshua James, 34, of Arab, Ala., pleaded guilty in… Continue reading

“Republicans represented by John Eastman sue to close Colorado’s primary elections to unaffiliated voters”

March 3, 2022, 6:43 ampolitical partiesRick Hasen

Denver Post: Opening Colorado’s primary elections to unaffiliated voters has cost partisans their constitutional right to free association, a group of Republicans are alleging in a new lawsuit.The lawsuit, filed Feb. 24 in federal court by four current or… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results”

March 2, 2022, 3:00 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol is expected to submit a court filing Wednesday laying out new details about the effort by conservative lawyer John Eastman to persuade Vice President Pence… Continue reading

Three Briefs Filed at Supreme Court in Opposition to NC Partisan Gerrymandering Case

March 2, 2022, 2:18 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Common Cause State Respondents Harper Plaintiffs Update: A fourth brief in opposition

“The Federal Constitution Requires that the Ohio Supreme Court Have Remedial Authority to Resolve Ohio’s Redistricting Stalemate”

March 2, 2022, 10:05 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Mark Brown for Jurist.

“Donald Trump Is Now Miraculously 43-0 Against ‘Partisan’ FEC”

March 2, 2022, 7:29 amfederal election commissionRick Hasen

Roger Sollenberger for the Daily Beast: Donald Trump may have been impeached twice, and he’s taken some lumps in court, but in one legal arena he is hands-down the undefeated reigning champ: campaign finance law.It’s not even close.According to… Continue reading

“New York is about to let noncitizens vote. It could reshape local politics forever.”

March 2, 2022, 7:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: t was 1986 and New York’s public school system was run by a patchwork of elected local school boards, all of them hotbeds for fiery debates about how kids were learning — or weren’t.Like most school board elections… Continue reading

“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is headed to a runoff against George P. Bush”

March 2, 2022, 7:05 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Texas Tribune: Despite an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton failed to garner enough Republican support in Tuesday’s GOP primary to avoid a runoff. The embattled incumbent, under indictment since 2015 and facing an… Continue reading

“The Independent State Legislature Claim, Textualism, and State Law”

March 1, 2022, 8:55 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Carolyn Shapiro has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: During the litigation surrounding the 2020 election, the independent state legislature claim (“ISLC”) , emerged as a potentially crucial factor in the presidential election. The ISLC rests on… Continue reading

“‘Multiple’ Jan. 6 calls between Trump and lawyer on Texas election lawsuit, panel reveals”

March 1, 2022, 2:31 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Politico: Congressional investigators say former President Donald Trump had “multiple phone calls” on Jan. 6, 2021 with an attorney who represented Texas in its lawsuit to overturn the election.The revelation that Trump had spoken repeatedly with Kurt Olsen amid… Continue reading

“John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar”

March 1, 2022, 2:12 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

LAT: Orange County attorney John Eastman is at the center of an ethics investigation into whether he violated laws while advising President Trump on how he could overturn his election defeat in 2020, the State Bar of California said… Continue reading

“Gableman report to Wisconsin Republicans promotes legally debunked effort to decertify 2020 election”

March 1, 2022, 2:07 pmchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The attorney who led a monthslong review of the 2020 election for Wisconsin Republicans called on lawmakers Tuesday to dissolve the state’s election agency and urged them to consider decertifying the results — a move that… Continue reading

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