January 6 and abuse of legislative & executive powers

July 1, 2022, 2:15 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

In a recent essay on the need to revise the Electoral Count Act (as well as in a recent New Yorker interview), I have emphasized the need to focus on the abuse of Article I legislative powers in connection with the… Continue reading

Elections investigation focuses on alleged breach in South Georgia

June 29, 2022, 8:49 amUncategorizedBruce Cain and Emily Zhang

The following story is (behind a paywall) at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Subpoenas sent this month are seeking evidence of whether election conspiracy theorists gained unauthorized access to Georgia voting equipment and copied sensitive files in Coffee County after the… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court has chipped away at the Voting Rights Act for 9 years. This case could be the next blow.”

June 27, 2022, 6:08 amVoting Rights ActRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been slowly whittled away over the last decade by the Supreme Court — and a case set to be heard in the fall could shrink the protections offered by… Continue reading

My New NY Times Oped on the Necessity of Indicting Donald Trump: “No One Is Above the Law, and That Starts With Donald Trump”

June 24, 2022, 7:35 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

I have written this piece for the NYT. It begins: In a 2019 ruling requiring the former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify at a congressional hearing about former President Donald J. Trump’s alleged abuses of power, Judge Kentanji… Continue reading

“Gov. Kemp to testify in Fulton County’s Trump probe”

June 24, 2022, 6:41 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

AJC: Gov. Brian Kemp will deliver testimony next month to Fulton County prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 elections, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.But unlike the parade of witnesses who have appeared at the Fulton courthouse to… Continue reading

“America is about to meet Jeffrey Clark, the one DOJ official willing to do Trump’s coup”

June 23, 2022, 7:18 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Ben Jacobs for Vox: Much of what we know about Clark’s actions comes from a deposition from his former colleague Richard Donoghue, who was also acting assistant attorney general. Clark first approached his boss, acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, in… Continue reading

“DOJ subpoenas Georgia Republican Party chairman as it expands Trump fake elector probe”

June 23, 2022, 6:53 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

CNN: Federal investigators subpoenaed the Georgia Republican Party chairman for information related to the fake elector scheme there — as the Justice Department has issued a fresh round of subpoenas to people from several states who acted as rogue electors… Continue reading

“Justice Dept. expands Jan. 6 probe with fresh subpoenas”

June 22, 2022, 12:14 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: The Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6 attack ratcheted up Wednesday as federal agents dropped subpoenas on people in at least two states, in what appeared to be a widening probe of how political activists supporting President… Continue reading

“‘There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe’: Election Officials Describe Threats Fueled by Trump”

June 22, 2022, 7:09 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of Arizona’s House, braced every weekend for hordes of Trump supporters, some with weapons, who swarmed his home and blared videos that called him a pedophile.“We had a daughter who was gravely ill,… Continue reading

“Brad Raffensperger’s Election Contradictions”

June 21, 2022, 9:33 amvoting technologyRick Hasen

Marilyn Marks: Today the January 6th Committee will hear much anticipated testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. But there is deep irony in his appearance as the Committee exposes the roles of Trump allies in attempting… Continue reading

“Jan. 6 committee to highlight Trump’s state-level pressure to overturn the 2020 election”

June 21, 2022, 7:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Politico: Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election depended on one key thing that he never received: the blessing of Republican-controlled state legislatures. But it wasn’t for a lack of trying.The select committee intends to lay out Tuesday how… Continue reading

“House Jan. 6 committee to reveal Meadows’ pressure on Georgia election officials”

June 20, 2022, 1:18 pmchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen

LAT: The House Jan. 6 committee plans to show that President Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows “had an intimate role … in this plot to put pressure on [Georgia] state legislators and on elections officials,” Rep. Adam B.… Continue reading

Ryan Goodman talks with former prosecutors

June 18, 2022, 4:38 pmUncategorizedNed Foley

In Just Security, they respond to his questions about the evidence of Trump’s criminality as shown in the January 6 Committee’s hearings. I was struck that several of these former prosecutors said that, as significant as it may be… Continue reading

Assessing Pence’s role in what led to 1/6

June 16, 2022, 7:12 amUncategorizedNed Foley

As I’ve said previously, I agree with Rick Hasen–as quoted in a new extensive appraisal of Pence and his role in the totality of events relating to January 6–that Pence “should have recognized Biden as the winner much earlier.… Continue reading