“No, Your Honor, You Can’t Call Yourself ‘High Justice’ on the Ballot in Chinese”

February 18, 2024, 4:18 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

NYT: Hong Le still remembers meeting a charismatic woman campaigning for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In Cantonese, that woman’s name was 賀錦麗, which is pronounced Ho Gam-lai and means “Congratulate Brocade Beautiful.” Most Americans know her by another… Continue reading

“College Leaders Urged to Act on Campus Voting Sites”

February 18, 2024, 4:16 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Bard News: A letter sent today to higher education leaders across New York State calls on them to help fulfill the promise of 2022 legislation designed to promote poll sites on college campuses across New York State. It urges them to… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill, Jamie Raskin, and Pam Fessler About My Book, A Real Right to Vote

February 17, 2024, 4:47 pmReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

Huge crowd and a great conversation at Politics and Prose in Washington DC. Watch here:

“Disqualified President’s Day: Navigating the Enforcement of Section 3 in a ‘Dangerously Unclear’ Legal Framework”

February 17, 2024, 4:43 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Important points from Michael Stern.

“Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now”

February 17, 2024, 6:52 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: Donald Trump is passing up the chance to add a fourth case to a trio of Trump-related appeals already stacked up at the Supreme Court. Trump elected not to ask the justices to reverse a federal appeals court ruling… Continue reading

Jonathan Mitchell Tells NYT on Record (!) That He Hopes Trump Doesn’t Learn About the Comstock Act on Abortion and Starts Talking About It in Public

February 17, 2024, 6:45 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

This quote is amazing, given that it is in the New York Times on the record: “We don’t need a federal ban when we have Comstock on the books,” said Jonathan F. Mitchell, the legal force behind a 2021 Texas … Continue reading

Washington Post: Federalist Society Lawyers Are Conflicted About Working for a Second Trump Administration Amidst Demands for Greater Personal Loyalty

February 17, 2024, 6:41 amauthoritarian threats in USRick Hasen

WaPo: Now the dominant front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination, Trump has broken with many of the leaders and allies of the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative legal organization that boosted his campaign eight years ago and helped him stock… Continue reading

Yale Law Journal Forum Collection: State and Local Corruption After Percoco and Ciminelli

February 17, 2024, 6:37 ambribery, chicaneryRick Hasen

This looks like it will be very useful: FORUM What Are Federal Corruption Prosecutions for? Lauren M. Ouziel This Essay considers the role of prosecutors in the Supreme Court’s decades-long contraction of public corruption law. It examines how federal prosecutors’… Continue reading

Big Fat Liar’s Dividend

February 17, 2024, 6:34 amelection law "humor"Rick Hasen

LOL.

New Mark Brown Book on Section 1983 Litigation

February 17, 2024, 6:33 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Details.

In Trump Immunity Case at SCOTUS, Alabama and 21 States Ask for Stay Because of “Speculation,” “True or Not” That Trump Election Subversion Prosecution “was Calculated to Silence or Imprison President Biden’s Political Rival”

February 16, 2024, 3:32 pmchicanery, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Shameless: The sudden urgency has invited public speculation that this case has an improper purpose—to influence the 2024 election. Amici States represent millions of Americans, many of whom worry that the timing of this prosecution was calculated to silence or… Continue reading

“2020 Election Lies Keep Unraveling as Courts Push for Evidence”

February 16, 2024, 3:28 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: More than three years after a swirl of conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the originators of many of the false allegations are now being forced to… Continue reading

“Multiple Threats Converge to Heighten Disinformation Risks to This Year’s US Elections”

February 16, 2024, 9:53 amcheap speech, election administration, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Lawrence Norden, Mekela Panditharatne, and David Harris at Just Security.

Protect Democracy SCOTUS Brief: It is Against the Public Interest to Stay Trump’s Election Subversion Trial; It Denies Voters Relevant Information About His Actions in 2020

February 16, 2024, 7:52 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

From the brief: While defendant Trump no doubt hopes that this Court will grant him the absolute immunity from legal accountability he has long sought, his primary strategy is to delay the trial until after the 2024 election for the… Continue reading

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