“A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies”

June 6, 2024, 6:50 amelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT, with the subhed: “Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of ‘the deep state cabal.'”

“The $64 million mystery: How a wave of anonymous donations is fueling the 2024 presidential campaign”

June 6, 2024, 6:48 amcampaign financeRick Hasen

Daniel Klaidman for CBS News: Washington hates a secret. Yet in the summer of 2020, when a blandly named entity called the Impetus Fund received a $64 million donation from a single anonymous source, it touched off a guessing game… Continue reading

Key Election Denier Scott Perry Appointed to House Intelligence Committee

June 6, 2024, 6:41 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Oh man: Perry, a hard-line Republican who previously served as the chair of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, played a key role in promoting false claims of election fraud and pushed the Trump White House and Justice Department to… Continue reading

Can State Supreme Courts Preserve–or Expand–Rights?

June 6, 2024, 6:36 amReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

New Yorker: James A. Gardner, a professor of law at the University at Buffalo who has written extensively about judicial federalism, has raised other caveats. He is skeptical that state courts can spearhead a meaningful expansion of rights, because of heightened… Continue reading

If You’ve Been Wondering Where My Top Ten List in Recent Election Law Scholarship Posted on SSRN Has Been….Some Bad News

June 6, 2024, 6:32 ampedagogyRick Hasen

About every two months, I feature on ELB the top ten recent articles in the Election Law topic posted on SSRN. I personally find it a great way to keep up on scholarship in the field. Unfortunately, SSRN for now… Continue reading

“NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and ‘writes fiction’ using AI”

June 5, 2024, 2:28 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

Reuters: Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, opens new tab, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas… Continue reading

“Georgia court of appeals indefinitely pauses the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump”

June 5, 2024, 1:53 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

CNN: CNN — A Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants until a panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified.… Continue reading

Illinois court issues permanent injunction for law that changed ballot access rules mid-election

June 5, 2024, 11:13 amballot accessDerek Muller

Following up on my earlier posts here and here, the order in Collazo v. Illinois State Board of Elections is here. The court found that strict scrutiny was the appropriate standard of review and that it failed; and… Continue reading

“Republicans slowly rev up poll monitoring operation ahead of election, but questions remain about its scope”

June 5, 2024, 10:31 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NBC News: National and state Republican Party officials are slowly revving up recruitment and plans for what they say will be an “unprecedented” Election Day army of 100,000 poll workers, monitors and lawyers. A Republican National Committee official told NBC… Continue reading

“The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’”

June 5, 2024, 7:00 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York. Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger… Continue reading

“Cracks emerge in Michigan’s criminal cases against false Trump electors”

June 5, 2024, 6:54 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Detroit News: The Michigan attorney general’s cases against 15 Republicans whose names appeared on a certificate falsely claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election could be in jeopardy as prosecutors have struggled to supply evidence to back up charges that… Continue reading

“Republicans protest bipartisan makeup of Cherokee County elections board”

June 4, 2024, 2:46 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: publicans are urging local officials to create a GOP majority on the Cherokee County Board of Elections, which traditionally has been bipartisan. The conflict is the latest backlash in a majority-Republican metro Atlanta county where Democratic voters have been… Continue reading

“DOJ claims releasing audio of Biden’s special counsel interview could lead to deepfakes”

June 4, 2024, 11:47 amcheap speechRick Hasen

AP: Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of… Continue reading

CNN admits it’s using different debate criteria for Biden, Trump than Kennedy

June 4, 2024, 10:33 amfederal election commissionDerek Muller

Joe Biden and Donald Trump are two of the least popular presidential candidates of all time. It’s no surprise that an independent presidential candidate (with a famous last name) is getting outsized attention among prospective voters. But there appears… Continue reading