May 3 Conference: “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times”

May 1, 2024, 8:59 amFirst Amendment theoryRick Hasen

I’m looking forward to attending and speaking at this Knight First Amendment Institute conference on Friday (live and online). I’ll be presenting my paper, From Bloggers in Pajamas to The Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify … Continue reading

“Michigan AG executes search warrants on Google and X in ongoing 2020 fake electors probe”

April 29, 2024, 1:45 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Marshall Cohen for CNN: Google and X, formerly Twitter, recently provided hundreds of files to Michigan prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro-Trump lawyer… Continue reading

“Contra FIRE: Hasen on how the government should identify professional journalists for access and protection – First Amendment News 418”

April 4, 2024, 7:36 amFirst Amendment theoryRick Hasen

Ron Collins for First Amendment News on my new draft paper, From Bloggers in Pajamas to The Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify Professional Journalists for Access and Protection. FIRE attorneys are going to respond in… Continue reading

My New Paper: “From Bloggers in Pajamas to The Gateway Pundit: How Government Entities Do and Should Identify Professional Journalists for Access and Protection”

March 29, 2024, 7:57 amFirst Amendment theoryRick Hasen

I have posted this draft on SSRN. I will be presenting it at a May 3 Knight Columbia conference, and it is forthcoming as a book chapter in THE FUTURE OF PRESS FREEDOM: DEMOCRACY, LAW & THE NEWS IN… Continue reading

“A right-wing tale of Michigan election fraud had it all – except proof”

January 3, 2024, 7:06 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

WaPo: The story had all the elements of a blockbuster crime saga: burner phones, semiautomatic weapons, silencers and bags of prepaid cash cards. “NOW WE HAVE PROOF!” blared the headline on the right-wing websiteGateway Pundit. “Massive 2020 Voter Fraud Uncovered… Continue reading

“Shasta County ditched its Dominion voting machines. Now, residents are braced for turmoil on Nov. 7”

November 2, 2023, 10:27 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

LA Times: In many elections, the suspense comes from wondering which candidate is going to win. In Shasta County, the question everyone is hanging on is: Will the local election next Tuesday bring unrest or even violence? The county of… Continue reading

“How the Far Right Tore Apart One of the Best Tools to Fight Voter Fraud”

June 6, 2023, 6:05 amUncategorizedKunal Dixit and Nicholas Stephanopoulos

NPR on the exodus of red states from ERIC. And a deeper look at the red-state exodus that followed — eight states and counting have now pulled out of ERIC — shows a policy blueprint for an election denial movement,… Continue reading

“As Fox News case heads to trial, far right St. Louis site faces its own defamation suit; A trial is scheduled for May 9 in St. Louis in a lawsuit filed by two Georgia election workers against The Gateway Pundit”

April 18, 2023, 7:32 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Missouri Independent: They didn’t know it at the time, but Dec. 3, 2020, was the start of a nightmare for Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman. Both were election workers in Atlanta, and that was the day Rudy… Continue reading

“These state officials praised ERIC for years before suddenly pulling out of the program”

April 11, 2023, 5:57 pmchicanery, election administration, voter registrationRick Hasen

Jessica Huseman for Votebeat: When newly elected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis kicked off a series of election security reforms in 2019, he said, “protecting the integrity of Florida’s elections” was one of his “top priorities.” In addition to giving $2… Continue reading

“Conspiracy theory whirlwind threatens to blow Texas out of national program that keeps voter rolls updated”

March 9, 2023, 3:32 pmfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Votebeat: In virtual meetings taking place over a year, right-wing activists and Republican legislators have stoked concern over a multistate coalition that Texas and more than 30 other states use to help clean voter rolls. The majority of their grievances… Continue reading

“Election deniers set sights on next target”

January 23, 2023, 7:58 amelection subversion risk, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Swing state voters broadly rejected candidates in last year’s midterms who questioned the results of the 2020 elections. But unfounded accusations of fraud and other malfeasance continue to tear at the machinery of U.S. elections. The… Continue reading

“Biden Will Mark Jan. 6 With Presidential Medals for Election Officials”

January 6, 2023, 7:12 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: President Biden on Friday will mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to a dozen people who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Mr. Biden will… Continue reading

“The Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud fictions in U.S. courts”

December 24, 2022, 8:13 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Reuters special report: Stefanie Lambert was a Detroit defense lawyer working on a succession of routine criminal cases – theft, drug possession and firearms charges. Then Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss transformed her life. As Trump started falsely alleging voter… Continue reading

“Arizona’s ‘Tricky Voting Machines’ Sound Suspiciously Familiar; In political conspiracy theories, as in television shows, the plot elements are always the same.”

November 12, 2022, 12:08 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

Renee DiResta for The Atlantic: After watching such rumors spread this week—and hundreds of other viral rumors spread during the 2020 election—I’m struck by how familiar, how predictable, the rumor story lines have become. Before the 2020 election, a rash… Continue reading

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