“Trump’s Georgia Lawyers Seek to Quash Special Grand Jury Report”

March 20, 2023, 7:40 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed a motion in a Georgia court on Monday seeking to quash the final report of a special grand jury that investigated whether Mr. Trump and some of his allies interfered in… Continue reading

“Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of dead and double voters”

March 18, 2023, 7:28 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: When Donald Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in a now-infamous bid to overturn the 2020 election, he alleged that thousands of dead people had voted in the state. “So dead people… Continue reading

“The Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymore”

March 18, 2023, 7:28 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico Magazine: The first major clue about those preoccupations came from the symposium’s theme, which the organizers had designated as “Law and Democracy.” As the programming unfolded over the next day and a half, it became alarmingly clear that,… Continue reading

“Florida Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Signature Rules for New Voters”

March 16, 2023, 5:03 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NY Times: A national get-out-the-vote group and the N.A.A.C.P. on Thursday challenged a Florida law that bars the use of digital signatures on voter registration forms, bringing a federal lawsuit against the state similar to ones pending in Texas and… Continue reading

“EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes of the Trump grand jury”

March 15, 2023, 10:48 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

AJC: They also divulged details from the investigation that had yet to become public. One was that they had heard a recording of a phone call Trump placed to late Georgia House Speaker David Ralstonin which the president asked… Continue reading

“Trump claims violence he inspired on Jan. 6 was Pence’s fault”

March 13, 2023, 7:43 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Donald Trump on Monday sharply rebuked Mike Pence’s assertion that history would hold him accountable for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, telling reporters that his former vice president should shoulder the blame for the… Continue reading

“Non-Retrogression Without Law”

March 13, 2023, 7:56 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos

This is a co-authored post by Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and me about our new article, “Non-Retrogression Without Law,” on the consequences of Shelby County v. Holder in the redistricting context: A decade ago, the Supreme Court held… Continue reading

“Little-Known Lawyer, a Trump Ally, Draws Scrutiny in Georgia’; A special grand jury looking into election meddling interviewed Robert Cheeley, a sign that false claims made by Donald J. Trump’s allies loom large in the case.”

March 12, 2023, 10:25 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT reports.

“Trump in growing legal and political peril ahead of 2024”

March 11, 2023, 7:46 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

WaPo: Yet for Trump — who since entering politics in 2015 has proved to have more lives than even the luckiest of felines — the latest developments could also prove little more than distractions that don’t fundamentally undermine his support… Continue reading

Should NYC Prosecutors Go After Trump for Crimes Tangentially Related to Campaign Finance Crimes? Reasons for Caution and Reasons to Save Prosecution for More Serious Crimes

March 10, 2023, 7:48 amchicaneryRick Hasen

Reports circulated yesterday that the Manhattan District Attorney is considering indicting Donald Trump for state law crimes related to falsifying business records related to hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. To turn this from a misdemeanor to… Continue reading

“No Rest Between Censuses for Congressional Mapmakers; What used to be a once-a-decade redistricting fight between political parties is now in perpetual motion, and up to 29 seats in 14 states are already at risk of being redrawn.”

March 10, 2023, 7:25 amredistrictingRick Hasen

NYT: For just about all of the nation’s history, politicians would fight over redistricting for a short period after each once-a-decade census, then forget about congressional maps until the next reapportionment. Now, a string of lawsuits and in-the-works state referendums… Continue reading

“Prosecutors Signal Criminal Charges for Trump Are Likely”

March 9, 2023, 3:20 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently signaled to Donald J. Trump’s lawyers that he could face criminal charges for his role in the payment of hush money to a porn star, the strongest indication yet that prosecutors are nearing… Continue reading

“Is anyone investigating Trump allies’ multi-state effort to access election systems?”

March 9, 2023, 9:21 amelection subversion risk, voting technologyRick Hasen

LAT: As news trickled out that former President Trump’s supporters had organized to access federally protected election machines and copied sensitive information and software, election expert Susan Greenhalgh waited for FBI or Justice Department leaders to announce an investigation. “It… Continue reading

“As Trump Inquiry Continues, Republicans Seek Oversight of Georgia Prosecutors”

March 6, 2023, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: To Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Atlanta, several bills in the Georgia legislature that would make it easier to remove local prosecutors are racist and perhaps retaliatory for her ongoing investigation of former President Donald J. Trump.… Continue reading