“Calls intensify to end Wisconsin’s election review amid blunders by ex-judge in charge”

October 14, 2021, 9:44 amchicanery, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The glaring errors became clear soon after a former Wisconsin judge issued subpoenas earlier this month in a Republican review of the state’s 2020 presidential election. Some of the requests referred to the wrong city. At least one was… Continue reading

Partisan Fairness Criteria in Action

October 14, 2021, 8:48 amUncategorizedredistrictingNicholas Stephanopoulos

One of the last decade’s most interesting redistricting developments was the adoption of explicit partisan fairness criteria by Michigan and Ohio (sites of two of the 2010s’ most egregious gerrymanders). In Michigan, the new independent commission is required to draw… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of My Panel with Dahlia Lithwick and Larry Mantle on the Supreme Court’s Upcoming Potentially Momentous Term

October 14, 2021, 7:01 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Great conversation:

“Time Is Running Out to Indict Trump for His Sex Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels”

October 13, 2021, 6:55 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

The Daily Beast reports.

Philadephia: “Mark Squilla Staffer Charged in South Philly Voter Fraud Conspiracy”

October 13, 2021, 6:53 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

This one looks troubling, because it is a crime committed by an election official: According to prosecutors, the conspiracy involved Beren and an individual currently identified in the complaint only as Consultant #1, who is described as a… Continue reading

Jeffrey Clark Apparently Booted from Work at Conservative Legal Group NCLA, Without Any Acknowledgement from Group He Might Have Been Fired for Trying to Steal the 2020 Election

October 13, 2021, 4:00 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

News: Whoa! Did @NCLALegal fire Jeffrey Clark and pull a @fedsoc and boot the person for fomenting insurrection while not publicly announcing that's what they were doing? (On FedSoc, see here: https://t.co/DIQ10nk7tV, https://t.co/RjCPB26pxt). https://t.co/CkrNYC391B— Rick Hasen… Continue reading

Trump Says That “If We Don’t Solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020,” Republican Voters Will Stay Home in 2022 and 2024

October 13, 2021, 2:24 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

This seems to escalate the Big Lie and put Republicans in a tough position: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1448386456406347786?s=20

Watch Archived Video of Today’s Knight First Amendment Institute Event: “Lies and Elections: The electoral context and the regulation of lies”

October 13, 2021, 1:03 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

You can now watch video of this event at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Law, featuring Janell Byrd-Chichester, Atiba Ellis, Matt Perault, and me, moderated by Genevieve Lakier. It was a great conversation!

“How close were we to an actual stolen election — stolen by Trump?”

October 13, 2021, 9:41 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Aaron Blake for WaPo: The picture of Donald Trump’s scheme to get the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 election has been significantly filled out in recent weeks. First came the disclosure that conservative lawyer John Eastman had… Continue reading

“Remedying Intimidating Voter Disinformation Through § 1985(3)’s Support Or Advocacy Clauses”

October 13, 2021, 8:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Michael Weingartner has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The 2020 election witnessed the continued shift of voter intimidation from the polling place to cyberspace. As social media and online tools provide bad actors with an unprecedented… Continue reading

“John Eastman’s Big Lie”

October 13, 2021, 8:07 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral collegeRick Hasen

George Thomas at The Constitutionalist: John Eastman was the architect of former President Trump’s plan to get his Vice President to declare him the winner of the 2020 election. The scheme turned on Eastman’s insistence that in seven states… Continue reading

“Evidence of Armed Trump Extremists Continues to Emerge in January 6 Cases”

October 13, 2021, 8:05 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Mother Jones: Since January 6, Republican lawmakers attempting to cover up the Trump-driven insurrection have claimed that no one brought guns to the US Capitol. That claim is false, as we showed in a recent Mother Jones investigation documenting… Continue reading

“Republicans rally around possible Trump 2024 bid as they downplay his role on January 6”

October 13, 2021, 7:15 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Nine months after the attack on the US Capitol, Republicans in Congress are defending Donald Trump’s role on January 6 in some of their strongest terms yet — and signaling he’d have widespread backing from the… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Gibson and Nelson: “State Supreme Courts and the Dominant Partisan Regime”

October 13, 2021, 7:00 amELB Book Corner, judicial electionsRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson, authors of the new book, Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis. (Readers using this link and the code JUDGING… Continue reading

“Pro-Trump PAC fined over foreign money offer”

October 13, 2021, 6:53 amcampaign finance, chicanery, federal election commissionRick Hasen

Lachlan Markay for Axios: A pro-Trump political group has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle allegations it illegally solicited $2 million from reporters posing as intermediaries for a Chinese national.Why it matters: A key player in the scheme, a veteran… Continue reading

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