Issacharoff: “Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty”

January 9, 2023, 8:38 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Looking forward to this new book out at the end of March from Sam Issacharoff. Kirkus: “An incisive diagnosis of the debilitating disease that has infected democracy and subverted its egalitarian promise.” More from Sam when the book is out.

Minor Republican Party Candidate Files Federal Lawsuit Claiming Trump Ineligible to Serve as President Because of Participation in Insurrection

January 9, 2023, 8:31 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Complaint. Background.

“George Santos broke campaign finance laws, nonpartisan watchdog says”

January 9, 2023, 8:08 amcampaign finance, chicaneryRick Hasen

WaPo: A complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission accused Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who has admitted to fabricating key details of his biography, of wide-ranging campaign finance violations. The alleged wrongdoing includes masking the true source of his… Continue reading

“A voter fraud movement is growing in Louisiana. Election officials say it’s baseless.”

January 9, 2023, 8:01 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Nola.com: Louisiana might seem an unlikely battleground for claims that the 2020 election was rigged to steal the election from then-President Donald Trump. After all, Trump won Louisiana’s electoral votes by a huge margin, garnering even more votes here… Continue reading

“BREAKING: Fulton special grand jury completes Trump investigation”

January 9, 2023, 7:58 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: The Fulton County special grand jury that has spent the last eight months examining potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election has completed its work and is being dissolved, according to the judge overseeing the high-profile panel. In… Continue reading

“No conflict in investigating the investigators investigating him, Perry says”

January 9, 2023, 7:47 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Politico: Rep. Scott Perry said that being under investigation shouldn’t disqualify him from taking part in any examination of federal investigators conducted by newly empowered House Republicans. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” the Pennsylvania Republican said: “Why should I be… Continue reading

Introducing RPV Near Me

January 9, 2023, 7:42 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

The following is a guest post by Ruth Greenwood, the director of the Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School: The Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School (“ELC”) now offers free access to summary measures of racially polarized… Continue reading

“Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy”

January 9, 2023, 7:26 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Carl Hulse for the NYT: Smarting after a dozen years under iron-fisted Republican rule, House Democrats promised to do things differently and open up the institution when they regained majority control in 2007. One of their changes was to allow… Continue reading

“Two years after Jan. 6, Facebook mulls if Trump is still a threat”

January 9, 2023, 7:23 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: Former president Donald Trump turned to his social media platform Truth Social this week to attack a familiar target: former Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. Trump’s posts stoked an old baseless claim that Freeman was part of an election-rigging… Continue reading

“Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil”

January 9, 2023, 7:21 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: In the weeks leading up to Sunday’s violent attacks on Brazil’s Congress and other government buildings, the country’s social media channels surged with calls to attack gas stations, refineries and other infrastructure, as well as for people to… Continue reading

“Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior”

January 9, 2023, 7:16 amcheap speechRick Hasen

New paper by Eady et al. in Nature Communications: There is widespread concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in elections worldwide. Yet data have been unavailable to investigate links between exposure to foreign influence campaigns and… Continue reading

Will the Republican Rules Package in the House Make Calling a Constitutional Convention More Likely?

January 9, 2023, 7:06 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

An ELB reader notes this provision buried in the rules bill, that would potentially revive some old state calls for a constitutional convention: PROVIDING FOR TRANSPARENCY WITH RESPECT TO MEMORIALS SUBMITTED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE V OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE… Continue reading

Roy Barnes: “Opinion: Mr. Secretary, please stand up for all Ga. voters”

January 9, 2023, 7:02 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC oped from former Ga. governor: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has taken on election denialists, most notably former President Donald Trump’s call to “find 11,780 votes.” For that, we owe him our thanks. Trump and his cohorts, many… Continue reading

“Is a longstanding Chicago political tradition on its way out?”

January 9, 2023, 6:56 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WBEZ: Every municipal election, candidates, lawyers and election officials alike gear up for a weekslong slog of resolving dozens — even hundreds, in some years — of nominating petition challenges, a longstanding Chicago tradition to knock candidates off the ballot… Continue reading