“Report: Universities Are Vital to Restoring Public Trust in Election”

February 23, 2022, 8:57 amelection administrationRick Hasen

Release: Today, Columbia World Projects (CWP) issued a new report, “Building Trust: Election Administration and the Role of Higher Education.” The report highlights the need to address the alarming erosion of trust in elections in the United… Continue reading

“Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability”

February 23, 2022, 8:56 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.His long-promised social network, Truth Social, has been almost entirely inaccessible in the first days of its … Continue reading

“How an obscure far-right website with 3 employees dominates Facebook in 2022”

February 23, 2022, 8:51 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Popular Information: Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting. Nearly all of its articles are aggregations of Tweets, YouTube videos, or other… Continue reading

“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has picked a new congressional map”

February 23, 2022, 8:49 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Philly Inquirer: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has selected a new congressional map that will shape power and politics in the state for the next decade.In a 4-3 decision Wednesday, the court chose a map that was drawn by a Stanford… Continue reading

Anti-Democracy Harvard Law Review Tweet was Just a Joke, Says Author of Student Note and Article Arguing Against American Democracy

February 23, 2022, 8:42 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Balls and Strikes: Against this purported historical backdrop, the author argues that judges should adopt a more “hands-off approach” to modern conflicts over state laws that affect voting rights, which are characterized as “partisan bickering” that courts are ill-suited… Continue reading

“Fighting Jan. 6 committee, John Eastman details how he came into Trump’s post-election fold”

February 23, 2022, 8:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: Attorney John Eastman, a key ally in Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election, says he began advising Trump two months before Election Day, when a prominent conservative attorney recruited him to “begin preparing for anticipated… Continue reading

ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to Ask

February 22, 2022, 7:51 amELB Podcast, redistricting, Supreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

New ELB Podcast: ELB Podcast Episode 3:6: Deuel Ross: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Alabama Voting Rights Redistricting Case But Were Too Confused to AskWhy did the Supreme Court put on hold a federal district court order… Continue reading

“Trump’s Truth Social Launches on Apple’s App Store, With Glitches”

February 22, 2022, 7:21 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WSJ: Donald Trump’s social-networking platform, Truth Social, has gone live in the U.S., but some would-be users reported being unable to create an account or received error messages when trying to do so. Others were prompted to… Continue reading

Supreme Court Consolidates Two Alabama Redistricting Voting Rights Cases, Squarely Sets Up Meaning of Section 2 of VRA in Question Presented

February 22, 2022, 7:00 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

From today’s order list: 21-1086 ) MERRILL, AL SEC. OF STATE, ET AL. V. MILLIGAN, EVAN, ET AL.) 21-1087 ) MERRILL, AL SEC. OF STATE, ET AL. V. CASTER, MARCUS, ET AL.These cases are consolidated, and a total of… Continue reading

Must-Read Politico: “Dems fear for democracy. Their big donors aren’t funding one of its main election groups.”

February 22, 2022, 6:51 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Politico: Democratic secretaries of state say they’re at the vanguard of protecting democracy, pushing back against election disinformation and attempts to suppress the vote.But while the party’s base has largely rallied behind them, its biggest donors have not.During the… Continue reading

Major NYT Magazine Story on Justice Thomas and His Wife Ginni Thomas Highlights Ginni Thomas’s Active Role in January 6-Related Activities

February 22, 2022, 6:49 amchicanery, election subversion risk, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

NYT: The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?” Shared in the days after the 2020 presidential election, it urged the members of an influential if secretive right-wing group to contact legislators in three… Continue reading

“Signatures of Florida voters whose registration changed to Republican different than prior samples”

February 22, 2022, 6:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

WUSF: Signatures of some voters in apartment buildings and high-rise towers in South Florida whose registration was changed to Republican appeared noticeably different than on paperwork those same voters signed earlier, according to a new review of voting… Continue reading

“U.S. census director says the bureau needs to reduce chances of meddling after Trump”

February 21, 2022, 3:47 pmcensus litigationRick Hasen

Hansi Lo Wang for NPR.

“The Supreme Court and the Pro-Business Paradox”

February 21, 2022, 2:55 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Elizabeth Pollman: One of the most notable trends of the Roberts Court is expanding corporate rights and narrowing liability or access to justice against corporate defendants. Citizens United and Hobby Lobby are the most well-known cases in this vein,… Continue reading

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