…ce while he contemplates his uncertain post-presidency future. There is no grand strategy at play, according to interviews with a half-dozen advisers and people close to the president. Mr. Trump is simply trying to survive from one news cycle to the next, seeing how far he can push his case against his defeat and ensure the continued support of his Republican base…. As a next step, Mr. Trump is talking seriously about announcing that he is plannin…
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…t running again in 2024. Trump aides, advisers and allies said there is no grand strategy to reverse the election results, which show President-elect Joe Biden with a majority of electoral college votes, as well as a 5 million-vote lead in the national popular vote. Asked about Trump’s ultimate plan, one senior administration official chuckled and said, “You’re giving everybody way too much credit right now.” Republican officials have scrambled na…
Continue readingPolitico: It will be nearly impossible for Republicans to alter the outcome or prevent Biden from taking office. Counting all the states where he currently leads in voting, Biden has 306 electoral votes. In Michigan, Biden’s lead at the moment is more than 10 times larger than Trump’s winning margin was there in 2016. To date, Trump’s campaign has yet to produce evidence in any state of the kind of widespread ballot fraud the president alleges….
Continue reading…tion. Justice Antonin Scalia signed onto that equal protection decision holding his nose, reportedly calling it, “as we say in Brooklyn, a piece of shit.”…
Continue reading…I have heard from dozens of voters individually today, all concentrated in Brooklyn, that they have received return ballot envelopes that are not in their name,” Ali Najmi, a New York elections lawyer, told The Post. Michael Ryan, executive director of the New York City Board of Elections, said that he learned of the error on Saturday, Gothamist reported. Ryan blamed a vendor with a contract to print and mail absentee ballots for voters in Queens…
Continue reading…ausing] false information to be provided on an application for ballot by mail,” with an application indicating that “the voter was disabled, when in fact the voter was not disabled.” An investigation into the election was announced in May 2018. The Gregg County grand jury issued indictments for 134 total counts against the four, with multiple overlapping charges involving the roughly three dozen voters. The indictments themselves offer little expl…
Continue reading…fendants bolster their voter fraud justification with two exhibits: a 2012 Grand Jury Report from Miami-Dade County, Florida that identified vulnerabilities in Florida’s absentee by mail voting process and a 2019 Order from the North Carolina Board of Elections ordering a new election in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District because the 2018 general election there was so “corrupted by fraud, improprieties, and irregularities so pervasive t…
Continue reading…e opportunity for audience questions. Panelists Christina Asbee, Director (Assistive Technology and Voter Access Programs), Disability Rights New York (DRNY)Wilfred U. Codrington III, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law SchoolJan Combopiano, Senior Policy Director and member of the Executive Committee, Brooklyn Voters Alliance Date & TimeTuesday, September 225:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Virtual Event (Zoom)…
Continue reading…t least one ballot for him. Is that a fraudulent intent? I could see how a jury could find it to be so especially given Trump’s other statements suggesting he believes that such double voting would not be caught by election officials. Another possible defense is that Trump was “joking” or not being serious about his comments, and this was typical Trumpian hyperbole. Perhaps so, but I think many people may hear his comments and think he is serious….
Continue reading…on Wednesday, its decision on whether to take up the case is likely to arrive this fall, perhaps just weeks before Election Day. Denying the appeal would give Democrats momentum heading into the final stretch of what’s expected to be a tight Senate and presidential race in the Grand Canyon State. Yet so far this election cycle, the conservative-majority court has let voting restrictions stand in Alabama, Florida, Texas and Wisconsin. In a dissent…
Continue reading…ty voting. “We see voting as a civic responsibility no less important than jury duty,” write the report’s authors, a group of 25 leading scholars, practitioners, and advocates who have dedicated their careers to strengthening access to voting and democratic governance in the United States. The working group, convened jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Ash Center was co-chaired by E.J. Dionne, Jr., the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior…
Continue reading…feet—marching, protesting, getting arrested more than 40 times to advocate for change. There have already been petitions to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge (named after a former Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan) to honor Lewis. Maybe one day, a new Voting Rights Act will be named after him as well….
Continue reading…been rejected. Other election attorneys said the rejection rates across the city ranged from about 20% in Manhattan — which has been much slower than other places in counting ballots — to almost 30% in parts of Brooklyn. Those are massive numbers that can swing close races, like the tight primary that House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) is in against progressive challenger Suraj Patel….
Continue reading…s a requirement of citizenship, as we currently do with the requirement of jury service, and as 26 countries around the globe currently do with regard to voting— Australia since 1924. It has not received any real discussion in the United States; the group hopes this will be a starting point. The Brookings-Ash Center launch event will be on Monday, July 20th at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The discussion will feature the release of the report and comments on it…
Continue reading…essor at Drexel Law. Wilfred Codrington began as an assistant Professor at Brooklyn Law School. Travis Crum began as an associate professor at Washington U. in St. Louis. Yasmin Dawood was the recipient of the 2020 Mewett Teaching Award for excellence in teaching, a student-choice award given to a faculty member by the graduating class. Josh Douglas won the 2019-20 Robert M. and Joanne K. Duncan Teaching Award at the University of Kentucky J. Davi…
Continue reading…y viewpoints are sufficiently represented on juries even in states with no jury unanimity requirement, the Court has predicted that minority viewpoints will be heard even without the unanimity rule. By deciding cases in this manner, the Court has made predictions that operate as if they are legislative facts even when it performs no factual inquiry. The Article first looks closely at a set of cases in which such predictive factfinding has occurred…
Continue reading…they can vote by absentee ballot in future elections during a protest near Grand Rapids. The applications were burned Friday during an event called Operation Incinerator outside the DeltaPlex Arena in Walker. Many people had flags, shirts and signs showing support for President Donald Trump and Republicans. “For them just to issue them without merit, without request to absolutely everybody — that is a great waste of taxpayer money,” said Michael F…
Continue reading…d Quart’s suit. The court’s reasoning was that, while Koffman was living on-campus in Yale, his permanent address was still in New York. Furthermore, in 2017 Koffman served jury duty in New York County, and did not request exemption on the grounds that he was no longer a resident of New York….
Continue reading…hment…. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court, said “the evidence the jury heard no doubt shows wrongdoing — deception, corruption, abuse of power.” “But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct,” she wrote. “Under settled precedent, the officials could violate those laws only if an object of their dishonesty was to obtain the Port Authority’s money or property.” But, she wrote, “the realignment of the toll lane…
Continue reading…le argues. PILF’s report was mentioned in other news outlets including the Grand Junction Sentinel in Colorado, “PBS NewsHour” and the New York Post. The Washington Times repeated the inaccurate claim of 1 million undeliverable mail ballots. In a statement, the National Vote at Home Institute, an advocacy group, challenged the characterization of the 28.3 million ballots as missing. Of those ballots, 12 million were mailed by election officials in…
Continue reading…ad that interrupted some Hulu subscribers as they watched the NBC comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” this month opened with a clip of President Trump speaking. “The ‘deep state’ is trying to inject our health system with socialist price controls,” a narrator then interjected, before a banner flashed at the bottom of the screen: “TEXT ‘SOCIALISM SUCKS’ TO 41490.” But neither FreedomWorks, the conservative group behind the ad, nor Hulu, a television-and-m…
Continue reading…using false records to be filed, and one count of obstruction of a federal grand jury investigation. Nader is charged with conspiring with Khawaja to make conduit campaign contributions, and related offenses. Boulos, Dekermenjian, Diab, El-Saadi, Hill, and Whipple are charged with conspiring with Khawaja and each other to make conduit campaign contributions and conceal excessive contributions, and related offenses. According to the indictment, fro…
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Continue reading…m, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. Mr. Trump fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director under whose watch agents opened the Russia inquiry, and has long assailed other top former law enforcement and intelligence officials as…
Continue reading…light of the Supreme Court’s lax definition of corruption. In some cases, jury convictions have been set aside for politicians who cite the Supreme Court’s latest campaign finance and white-collar crime cases, especially Citizens United v. FEC and McDonnell v. United States. This Article explores what the Supreme Court has done to rebrand corruption, as well as how this impacts the criminal prosecutions of corrupt elected officials. This Article…
Continue reading…The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning with the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, seeks to invalidate Proposal 2, block implementation and prevent the independent commission from drawing new legislative and congressional district maps for the 2022 election cycle. Instead, whichever political party wins control of the state Legislature next year would lead that process in 2021. Republicans drew existing lines in 2011 and currently hold major…
Continue reading…n Richland County, South Carolina. Among other attributes, Coconino is “the second largest geographic county in the contiguous United States, one that includes a chunk of the Grand Canyon — including a polling location at the bottom that can be reached only by helicopter or donkey.” (h/t Doug Chapin)…
Continue reading…ality of congressional review of the constitutionality of state law in his grand design, a central feature that he introduced again and again at the convention, and always lost – except oddly in this one area. The key to Madison’s design here was the indifference of the national legislature to local battles and hence the desire to protect the national institution against anything sounding in local political capture. But Madison’s constitution di…
Continue reading…for perjury, regarding his tax filings — Fred managed to get an all-white jury to find King not guilty. And he was the winning lawyer in the famous Gomillion v. Lightfoot case. I got to know Fred in the 1990s, when I was in Alabama working on an article on cumulative voting. Fred was a central figure in the Alabama Democratic Conference, the organization formed right after Gomillion to protect minority voting rights in Alabama. I then had had the…
Continue reading…mpa Bay Times: Andrew Gillum is a focal point of a recently issued federal grand jury subpoena that demands information on the former Democratic candidate for governor, his campaign, his political committee, a wealthy donor, a charity he worked for and a former employer. The subpoena, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times and previously unreported, could reflect a new level of federal inquiry into Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee who narrowly los…
Continue reading…violations, the Miami Herald has learned. Investigators obtained a federal grand jury subpoena Tuesday seeking records from Bing Bing Peranio, an employee of Yang’s family’s spa business who last year contributed a maximum $5,400 to President Donald Trump’s re-election effort, according to a source familiar with the probe. Yang came to Peranio’s workplace and helped her write the check, Peranio told reporters from The New York Times, who first rep…
Continue reading…ponent was illegal. Notably, Mueller had never called Trump Jr. before the grand jury to press him on his knowledge of the law. Establishing willfulness is only necessary for criminal campaign finance violations. For the Federal Election Commission to seek civil penalties, it simply needs to find that Trump Jr. solicited a contribution from a person he knew was a foreign national. As the July 2017 federal complaint by the Campaign Legal Center, fi…
Continue reading…out reporting it. And just as Mueller’s team did not call Trump Jr. to the grand jury, it did not get to personally interview the president or get him before the grand jury. It relied on written answers from Trump, vetted through his lawyers. So it may be very hard to prove willfulness without getting more from the president himself. And as with the foreign opposition research case against Trump Jr., the hush money payments case against Cohen—and…
Continue reading…ttorney Jack Roady weeks after reviewing her office’s policy on processing jury summons lists that indicate a voter might not be a U.S. citizen. Johnson, who doubles as county registrar overseeing the county’s voter rolls, will now use a person’s voluntary declaration that they are a non-citizen on a jury summons exemption as a precursor for possible criminal investigation for voter fraud. The policy revision, dated March 12, states that if a pote…
Continue reading…made to the state Republican Party. Hayes, a former five-term North Carolina congressman, surrendered himself to authorities and appeared in Charlotte’s federal court Tuesday, the same day the federal grand jury’s indictment was unsealed. Hayes and three others were indicted on charges related to fraud and attempting to bribe North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey….
Continue reading…r reviewing the citizen petition, exhibits and testimony of witnesses, the grand jury found “no cognizable crime under the laws of the State of Kansas,” said the document, obtained Wednesday by the Journal-World.Otherwise, as with any type of grand jury, the panel’s proceedings were secret and closed to the public, from jury selection to investigative actions it may have taken. Steven Davis, the Lawrence resident who petitioned to convene the gran…
Continue readingWBTV: The Department of Justice has issued subpoenas for a federal grand jury investigation into allegations of election fraud in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District. The US Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has issued at least three subpoenas for documents related to the 9th District. The subpoenas come less than a month after the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election in the 9th…
Continue reading…n in North Carolina tainted by evidence of ballot fraud, was indicted by a grand jury on seven counts, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Dowless, who worked for Mark Harris, the Republican nominee in the state’s 9th Congressional District, was arrested and charged with three counts of felonious obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiracy to commit obstruction of justice, and two counts of possession of absentee ballot, the Wake County distric…
Continue reading…New book is “First” by Evan Thomas and here’s the excerpt, courtesy of Mike Sacks: https://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/1100047464567058432…
Continue reading…istrict Attorney Lorrin Freeman says she expects to take the case before a grand jury in the next month.Freeman said that case largely focuses on the 2016 general and 2018 primary elections, knowing the state was conducting its own investigation into the 2018 general election.“I think it is fair to say at this point that a criminal prosecution should be anticipated,” said Freeman in an interview with CBS17. “It has taken time. It is detailed work….
Continue readingWaPo: Six months after a grand jury demanded millions of North Carolina voting records, state officials have announced they will release fewer than 800 voter files — a potentially significant setback for a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who has targeted noncitizen voting as one of his top priorities. The state Board of Elections last week instructed 44 county election offices that received wide-ranging subpoenas for millions of voting records in…
Continue reading…OJ supervisors.The suit was tried before a single district judge without a jury. He ruled against the Department on grounds of both discriminatory purpose and effect. The judge found that the voters had indeed voted in the wrong district, as we had alleged, but he agreed with county officials that their actions were just mistakes and did not violate federal law. DOJ appealed (I had left DOJ by the time it appealed) and the court of appeals affirme…
Continue reading…f a former Democratic county commissioner from New York State who was acquitted of forging absentee ballots during a 2009 primary election. Edward G. McDonough says the special prosecutor falsified evidence during the pre-trial investigation, grand jury proceedings, and at trial in an attempt to convict him of dozens of state law felony crimes related to the forged absentee ballots. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found McDono…
Continue reading…yments were made, at least in part, for campaign purposes. As for what the jury concluded in the Edwards case, there’s good reason to believe that the evidence in a criminal case against Trump would be much stronger. … The bad arguments being floated in Trump’s defense are emblematic of a deterioration in respect for the rule of law in this country. The three of us have deep political differences, but we are united in the view that our country com…
Continue reading…but it looks like there is plenty of evidence there to give the issue to a jury. The timing of the Daniels payment is particularly damning in proving this was campaign related and not primarily about helping Trump’s personal life. Cohen and Trump refused to pay off Stormy Daniels until October 25, 2016, just before the election and after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape, when Daniels had threatened to give an interview to a media outlet…
Continue reading…hen President Richard M. Nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator by a grand jury investigating the cover-up of the break-in at the Democratic headquarters. “While many Americans who desired a particular outcome to the election knocked on doors, toiled at phone banks or found any number of other legal ways to make their voices heard, Cohen sought to influence the election from the shadows,” the prosecutors wrote. “He did so by orchestrating se…
Continue reading…ere times when she did not quite understand what she was doing or what the grand purpose was. She did, though, say that campaign workers delivered sealed absentee ballots from the homes of people who requested them to McCrae Dowless’s office — though North Carolina law forbids third parties from handling those ballots. She said she spent her time tracking the number of ballots sent in to the county board of elections — and then tally up the number…
Continue reading…18 It’s time to consider some unfamiliar suggestions for election reform A Grand Election Bargain That Everyone Should Support Dan Tokaji | 11/20/18 Congress should reform voter registration while imposing reasonable voter identification requirements in federal elections Four Priorities for H.R. 1 Campaign Legal Center | 11/21/18 Here are the highest priorities for legislative reform on campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting, and ethics Pe…
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