“How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind”

September 6, 2023, 6:59 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt in The Atlantic: The causes of America’s crisis are not simply a strongman and his cultlike following. They are more endemic than that. Over the past two centuries, America has undergone massive economic and… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of SDP Webinar: “The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and Public Peace,” with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Ben Ginsberg, and Rachel Kleinfeld

September 5, 2023, 4:05 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

This was an important and sobering discussion, kicking off the fall 2023 webinar series for UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project. Watch:

“Paper ballots are good, but accurately hand-counting them all is next to impossible”

September 5, 2023, 3:56 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

Barry Burden at The Conversation.

“A New Antidemocracy Tool; EagleAI is the latest effort by election deniers to use the upkeep of voter rolls as a vehicle to disenfranchise voters and spread disinformation.”

September 5, 2023, 3:38 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Brennan Center: Some of the nation’s preeminent election deniers have launched EagleAI NETwork, a new project that could undermine voting rights and elections. Its key supporters include Georgia serial voter registration challenger Jason Frazier and former President Trump lawyer… Continue reading

Breaking: Unanimous 3-Judge Federal Court Holds Alabama Defied Supreme Court in Allen v. Milligan, Must Draw Another Minority Opportunity Congressional District

September 5, 2023, 7:33 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

You can find the unanimous, 217-page opinion at this link. The Court castigated Alabama both for its failure to obey the Supreme Court’s order and for its delay: We have reached these conclusions only after conducting an exhaustive analysis of… Continue reading

“Is the Supreme Court seriously going to disqualify Trump? I’m giving it a 10% chance.”

September 4, 2023, 12:57 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Adam Unikowsky at Substack.

“Wisconsin GOP weighs moves to sideline elections chief and liberal Supreme Court majority”

September 4, 2023, 12:56 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state’s nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court. Their actions – an escalation of… Continue reading

Coming Next Week to ELB: Symposium on the 25th Anniversary of Issacharoff and Pildes, “Politics as Markets”

September 4, 2023, 10:53 amPoliticsMarkets25, theoryPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

One of the most important theoretical contributions to election law in the past generation has been Sam Issacharoff and Rick Pildes’s article, Politics as Markets: Partisan Lockups of the Democratic Process, 50 Stanford Law Review 643 (1998). (The article… Continue reading

“Kennedy’s Supreme Court legacy is being erased, in part by past clerks”

September 4, 2023, 9:07 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Deep dive by Bob Barnes for WaPo: Other changes attributable to Kennedy’s departure have drawn less attention. For years, Kennedy was alone among the conservative justices in believing extreme partisan gerrymandering —drawing legislative districts to favor the political party in… Continue reading

“A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat”

September 4, 2023, 7:44 amredistrictingRick Hasen

AP: Democrats could gain a seat in the U.S. House and multiple seats in Georgia’s Legislature if a judge rules Republicans drew maps illegally weakening Black voters’ power. The trial beginning Tuesday is part of a wave of litigation progressing… Continue reading

“Top Democrats say there’s a strong case for disqualifying Trump”

September 4, 2023, 7:08 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Axios: Two leading Democrats said Sunday there are potential grounds to remove former President Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.” The big picture: The comments by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sen. Tim… Continue reading

“Houston-area elections office dismantled as contentious Texas law takes effect”

September 4, 2023, 7:03 amelection administration, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

CNN: The election administrator’s office in Texas’ most populous county – Harris County, which is home to Houston – has been dismantled to comply with a new state law passed by Republican legislators that officially takes effect Friday. The law,… Continue reading

“Arizona GOP rejects single-day vote proposal, angering election deniers”

September 2, 2023, 4:10 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: A proposal by Republican election deniers in Arizona who want to opt out of the state’s government-run presidential primary election in 2024 and instead hold the party’s own one-day, in-person election, with paper ballots that would be counted by… Continue reading

“The sleeper legal fight that could define 2024: Is Trump even eligible to run?”

September 2, 2023, 2:37 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

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