“2 Men Fined $1.25 Million for Robocall Scheme to Suppress Black Vote”

April 9, 2024, 4:02 pmchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Two right-wing political operatives who used a robocall campaign to try to discourage Black New Yorkers from voting in the 2020 election will pay up to $1.25 million for their actions, the New York State attorney general’s office announced … Continue reading

American Law Institute: “Guidance for Insurrection Act Reform Issued by Bipartisan Group”

April 8, 2024, 7:12 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Release: Today, a bipartisan group led by Bob Bauer (NYU School of Law and former White House Counsel to President Obama) and Jack Goldsmith (Harvard Law School and former Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration) issued “… Continue reading

“In Electoral Disputes, State Justices Are Less Reliable GOP Allies than the U.S. Supreme Court—That’s the ‘Problem’ the Independent State Legislature Claim Hopes to Solve”

April 4, 2024, 8:20 amlegislation and legislatures, political polarization, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Rebecca L. Brown, Lee Epstein, and Michael J. Nelson have this new article in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Here is the abstract: Scholars have identified serious drawbacks to the independent state… Continue reading

“How Did Corporations Get Stuck in Politics and Can They Escape?”

April 3, 2024, 8:09 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Jill Fisch and Jeff Schwartz have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, University of Chicago Business Law Review). Here is the abstract; Corporations have always been involved in politics, but today is different. They are publicly taking positions, either directly… Continue reading

“Trump and Nebraska governor push to deny Biden a crucial electoral vote”

April 3, 2024, 7:28 amelectoral collegeRick Hasen

Dave Weigel for Semafor: Donald Trump and Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen endorsed legislation that would take Omaha’s potentially decisive electoral vote out of play for Democrats, hours after conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s Tuesday X post suggesting it. In just 200… Continue reading

“The ‘Bounds’ of Moore: Pluralism and State Judicial Review”

April 1, 2024, 12:04 pmlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Leah Litman and Kate Shaw have written this essay for the Yale Law Journal Forum. Here is the abstract: In Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court rejected a maximalist version of the “independent state legislature theory” (ISLT), invoking state judicial… Continue reading

My New One at Slate: “2016 Election Fraudster ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Might Finally Be About to Face the Music”

April 1, 2024, 7:16 amcheap speech, chicanery, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

I have written this piece for Slate. it begins: On Friday, a federal appeals court in New York will consider a case with key implications for the 2024 election. At issue is whether it violates federal law to trick… Continue reading

“How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem”

April 1, 2024, 7:13 amcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WaPo: In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden, Trump sent so many emails and text messages asking for money that Republican consultants warned his mailing lists could become useless. The former president’s friends told him… Continue reading

“South Carolina latest state to use congressional map deemed illegal”

March 28, 2024, 8:05 pmredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Patrick Marley for WaPo: In a scenario that has played out in three states in recent years, a federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw a new congressional district in South Carolina and that the state… Continue reading

Campaign Finance Vouchers Do Not Expand the Diversity of Donors: Evidence from Seattle

March 28, 2024, 3:06 pmUncategorizedRichard Pildes

As I’ve written before, a mistake many political reformers make is in assuming that most citizens are as engaged in politics as the reformers are, or would be if given the appropriate opportunities. A new paper on the Seattle campaign… Continue reading

“Federal court rejects congressional redistricting challenge as state lawsuit awaits Florida Supreme Court”

March 28, 2024, 10:04 amredistricting, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen

The Tributary: A three-judge federal panel unanimously upheld a controversial congressional map backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, despite accusations he and the Legislature discriminated against Black voters. The judges agreed that the plaintiffs failed to show the Legislature was discriminating… Continue reading

“Exclusive: A high-level election security group is back. NSA and Cyber Command want to keep it under the radar”

March 27, 2024, 2:58 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

The Record: U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency will not identify the latest leaders of their joint election security task force, in part to shield them from the threats and harassment other election officials have received for merely… Continue reading

Huge Congratulations to ELB Blogger and USC Professor Franita Tolson, Named New Dean at USC Law

March 27, 2024, 11:14 amelection law bizRick Hasen

Thrilled about this news: Interim Dean and Professor Franita Tolson has been named the dean and Carl Mason Franklin Chair in Law of the USC Gould School of Law. Tolson is a nationally recognized thought leader and dialogue shaper… Continue reading

“How Trump Moved Money to Pay $100 Million in Legal Bills”

March 27, 2024, 7:03 amcampaign finance, campaigns, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump has spent more than $100 million since leaving office, on lawyers and other costs related to fending off various investigations, indictments and his coming criminal trials, according to a New York Times review of… Continue reading

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