“Newly Released Messages Detail Roots of the ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme”

March 4, 2024, 1:01 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.… Continue reading

“20 years of data shows no link between mailed ballots and illegal voting”

March 4, 2024, 12:56 pmelection administration, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Steven Rosenfeld for The Fulcrum: It is an article of faith among those who do not believe Donald Trump lost in 2020 that mailing ballots to voters increases illegal voting — often called voter fraud. “Before the machines were introduced,… Continue reading

I Joined “Think” on KERA to Talk About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”

February 29, 2024, 4:40 pmReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

Listen here: As the Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act, renewed calls have been made for ways to protect all Americans’ right to vote. Richard L. Hasen is professor of law and political science at UCLA… Continue reading

“Ranked-Choice Voting is MAGA’s Latest Target; Leonard Leo and other far-right power players are attacking a bipartisan election reform.”

February 29, 2024, 11:19 amalternative voting systems, political polarizationRick Hasen

Brendan Fischer writes for Documented (here’s the version at Rolling Stone): An organized and well-funded network of right-wing groups is spending countless millions attacking a bipartisan election reform that could threaten the MAGA political project. Ranked-choice voting — which… Continue reading

I Spoke to “Air Talk” with Larry Mantle About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”

February 28, 2024, 7:32 amReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

You can listen here (scroll down to segment): Should Americans Have The Right To Vote? A New Book Makes The Case For Amending The Constitution To Affirm It LISTEN • 17:42 For as many rights as The Constitution lays out, like the… Continue reading

“The 2020 election took days to call. Could it happen again this year?”

February 27, 2024, 12:33 pmelection administrationRick Hasen

NBC News: After the 2020 presidential election took days to call, many states reworked how they process mail ballots with the goal of delivering results faster — and cutting off oxygen for conspiracy theories that flourished as the country… Continue reading

“Shadow disticts”

February 27, 2024, 9:32 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Quinn Yeargain has written this article for the Cardozo Law Review. Here is the abstract: Redistricting disputes—for congressional, state legislative, and local districts—have proven all-consuming in politics. Litigation over the legality of districts, under both federal and state law, is… Continue reading

I Spoke to Dahlia Lithwick’s “Amicus” Podcast at Slate About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote” (And Other Stuff!)

February 24, 2024, 7:22 amReal Right to Vote, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

You can listen to this great conversation here: A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy. Dahlia Lithwick is drinking from the… Continue reading

“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

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

In Person Washington D.C. “Real Right to Vote Event” Feb. 17 with Sherrilyn Ifill, Jamie Raskin, and Pam Fessler

February 15, 2024, 7:08 amReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

I recently noted some in-person and virtual events to discuss my new book, A Real Right to Vote, out February 20th. (Preorder from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and read the Kirkus Review). Looking forward… Continue reading

On January 6, 2025

February 15, 2024, 6:43 amballot access, electoral collegeDerek Muller

When Congress convenes to count electoral votes on January 6, 2025, it will face intense pressure. If the Supreme Court rejects Colorado’s effort to bar Donald Trump from the primary ballot, its path seems likely to leave the door open… Continue reading

Listen to My Discussion with NPR’s “Here and Now” About My New Book, “A Real Right to Vote”

February 14, 2024, 11:18 amReal Right to VoteRick Hasen

You can listen here: Election law expert Richard Hasen is calling for a Constitutional Amendment, that would affirmatively lay out Americans’ right to vote. He argues that it would protect voting rights, reduce discrimination at the ballot box, and also protect… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Ann Southworth: “$peech”

February 14, 2024, 5:35 amcampaign finance, ELB Book Corner, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

I am pleased to welcome Ann Southworth to the ELB Book Corner, author of the new book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (Chicago). The discount code for ELB readers is BIGMONEY2023. This is the first… Continue reading