“Seizure of Congressman’s Phone Is Latest Sign of Escalating Election Inquiry”

August 10, 2022, 3:24 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: The F.B.I.’s seizure of Representative Scott Perry’s phone this week was at least the third major action in recent months taken in connection with an escalating federal investigation into efforts by several close allies of former President Donald… Continue reading

Ben Horton: “Trump is Disqualified from Future Public Office Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, and State Officials Should Not Wait for Congress to Ensure That the Constitution is Enforced”

August 10, 2022, 11:00 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

The following is a guest post from Ben Horton of Free Speech for People: Given the news of the FBI executing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Professor Rick Hasen recently reposted Professor Ned Foley’s suggestion from last October that… Continue reading

“Hunting for Voter Fraud, Conspiracy Theorists Organize ‘Stakeouts’”

August 10, 2022, 7:05 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: One night last month, on the recommendation of a man known online as Captain K, a small group gathered in an Arizona parking lot and waited in folding chairs, hoping to catch the people they believed were trying… Continue reading

“After Mar-a-Lago search, users on pro-Trump forums agitate for ‘civil war’ — including a Jan. 6 rioter”

August 10, 2022, 7:01 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NBC News: Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s… Continue reading

“Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler concedes in Washington state”

August 10, 2022, 6:53 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Herrera Beutler, who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, would be the third such House Republican to lose in a primary this year, joining Rep. Peter… Continue reading

“Wisconsin primary election 2022 coverage: Vos calls Gableman ‘an embarrassment’, democratic socialist elected in Milwaukee suburb”

August 10, 2022, 6:52 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Journal Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who narrowly won a primary Tuesday night, called Michael Gableman, the man he hired to investigate the 2020 presidential election, “an embarrassment.”Despite Vos hiring Gableman well over a year ago and… Continue reading

“Court Upholds N.C. Statute That Criminalizes Knowingly/Recklessly Libelous Statements About Candidates”

August 9, 2022, 3:10 pmcampaignsRick Hasen

Eugene Volokh blogs: Grimmett v. Costa, decided today by Judge Catherine Eagles (M.D.N.C.), refused to issue a preliminary injunction against a N.C. statute that makes it a misdemeanor[f]or any person to publish or cause to be circulated derogatory… Continue reading

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

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