“After a Wave of Subpoenas, Notes of Caution About the Jan. 6 Investigation”

September 13, 2022, 8:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: From outside the walls of the Justice Department, the sprawling investigation into efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election seems only to be accelerating, with prosecutors last week subpoenaing about 40 associates of former President Donald J.… Continue reading

“Russia Secretly Gave $300 Million to Political Parties and Officials Worldwide, U.S. Says”

September 13, 2022, 5:32 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Russia has covertly given at least $300 million to political parties, officials and politicians in more than two dozen countries since 2014, and plans to transfer hundreds of millions more, with the goal of exerting political influence and… Continue reading

My New Article Posted on SSRN: “Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future”

September 13, 2022, 3:51 pmdirect democracy, legislation and legislatures, Supreme Court, theory, voting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

I have posted on SSRN a draft of this encyclopedia article, forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, editor, forthcoming 2023). Here is the abstract: This Chapter considers what election “reform” is and why many Americans… Continue reading

“Justice Department criminal investigation now touches nearly all efforts to overturn 2020 election for Trump”

September 13, 2022, 3:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: Justice Department criminal prosecutors are now examining nearly every aspect of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election – including the fraudulent electors plot, efforts to push baseless election fraud claims and how money flowed to… Continue reading

Two APSA Panels from the Law and Political Process Study Group

September 13, 2022, 1:48 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Join us if you are at APSA in Montreal, with a panel on Lani Guinier’s legacy and one on my Cheap Speech book: Lifting Every Voice: The Legacy of Lani Guinier Sat, September 17, 2:00 to 3:30pm, TBA Session Submission… Continue reading

I Talked to NPR’s Here and Now about the Supreme Court’s Upcoming Moore v. Harper Case and Dangers to American Democracy

September 13, 2022, 12:50 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Listen here.

New York: “Rensselaer County’s Republican elections commissioner arrested by FBI”

September 13, 2022, 10:11 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Times-Union: Jason T. Schofield, the Republican Rensselaer County Board of Elections commissioner, was arrested Tuesday morning by the FBI as he left his residence and was on his way to the county office building where he works, according to multiple… Continue reading

“Requests for info on 2020’s election hinders local officials ahead of midterms”

September 13, 2022, 10:08 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NPR reports.

“Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough”

September 13, 2022, 10:07 amcampaigns, cheap speechRick Hasen

NPR: With two months to go until the midterms, tech companies are getting ready: rolling out fact checks, labeling misleading claims and setting up voting guides.The election playbooks being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube and TikTok are… Continue reading

“Inside a Republican Superlawyer’s Break With Donald Trump’s G.O.P.; An exclusive excerpt from a new book by David Enrich on powerful corporate law firms and how the Trump era changed and challenged one in particular.”

September 13, 2022, 6:54 amelection law biz, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Ben Ginsberg’s office at the international law firm Jones Day was like a shrine to the old Republican Party.Its walls and shelves were crowded with campaign artifacts that he had collected over the years, including on the trail… Continue reading

“Congress may force election deniers to get a lot more creative; How a few election law fixes could protect democracy in 2024.”

September 13, 2022, 6:50 amelection subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

Ben Jacobs for Vox: The human mind is ingenious. It can create towering works of art and make remarkable scientific discoveries. It is, as we saw in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, also capable of inventing new ways… Continue reading

“The Fight Against an Age-Old Effort to Block Americans From Voting”

September 13, 2022, 6:42 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

ProPublica: Even though federal law guaranteed the two women the right to have someone help them vote, Coley-Pearson knew too well that this right was under attack. For all of the recent uproar over voting rights, little attention has… Continue reading

“An algorithmic approach to legislative apportionment bases and redistricting”

September 12, 2022, 7:14 pmUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

Christian Haas, Peter Miller, and Steven Kimbrough have posted this very interesting paper using a redistricting algorithm to estimate the impact on minority representation of changing the apportionment base from total population to CVAP. Their results are consistent with this… Continue reading

“Justice Dept. Issues 40 Subpoenas in Widening Jan. 6 Inquiry; Over the last week, it also seized the phones of two top Trump advisers, a sign of an escalating investigation two months before the midterm elections.”

September 12, 2022, 2:43 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: The Justice Department has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking information about the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on… Continue reading

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