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“Republican Group Running Anti-Trump Ads Finds Little Is Working”

September 28, 2023, 4:51 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen
NYT: A well-funded group of anti-Trump conservatives has sent its donors a remarkably candid memo that reveals how resilient former President Donald J. Trump has been against millions of dollars of negative ads the group deployed against him in two… Continue reading

“After two rejections, is Ohio attorney general slow-walking anti-gerrymandering amendment?”

September 28, 2023, 9:43 amredistrictingRick Hasen
Ohio Capital Journal: One might think that a movement associated with a former state Supreme Court chief justice could draft a petition summary that passes legal muster. But twice already, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has rejected summaries of a… Continue reading

“Judge Denies Trump’s Request That She Recuse Herself in Election Case”

September 28, 2023, 6:28 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
NYT: The judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election denied on Wednesday his attempt to disqualify her from the case for supposedly being biased against him. In a strongly worded… Continue reading

“Media network paid by GOP groups is behind deluge of election records requests”

September 28, 2023, 6:22 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
Votebeat: In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope voters used to mail in their ballots. And in dozens of… Continue reading

“Twitter Fires Election Integrity Team Ahead of 2024 Elections”

September 28, 2023, 6:10 amcheap speech, election subversion risk, social media and social protestsRick Hasen
Rolling Stone: NEXT YEAR WILL see dozens of elections around the globe, but X (formerly Twitter) has seemingly abdicated responsibility for protecting users from misinformation during these democratic processes. Several European staffers working on a threat disruption team for the… Continue reading

“Redistricting redux: North Carolina lawmakers to draw again new maps for Congress and themselves”

September 28, 2023, 6:08 amredistrictingRick Hasen
AP: With a new state budget completed, North Carolina legislators now turn their attention yet again to mapping the state’s congressional and General Assembly districts. The House and Senate redistricting committees scheduled hearings this week — the last one… Continue reading

Kirkus Reviews Calls My Forthcoming Book, A Real Right to Vote, “A persuasive, up-to-date proposal that deserves widespread attention.”

September 27, 2023, 7:44 amReal Right to VoteRick Hasen
My book, A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy, is out February 20 from Princeton University Press. (You can preorder now at Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes and Noble. There is also… Continue reading

“Voter Suppression, New York Style; Few states make it harder to participate in primary elections, which frequently determine the eventual winner.”

September 27, 2023, 7:36 amprimariesRick Hasen
Howard Husock for City Journal.

“Pluribus AM: All redistricting, all the time”

September 27, 2023, 7:13 amredistrictingRick Hasen
From Reid Wilson’s indispensable morning newsletter on news around the states: In Politics & Business We should just rename this section “Today in Redistricting Litigation” ALABAMA: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Alabama’s bid to keep a U.S. House district map that… Continue reading

“Trump Lawyers Assail Gag Order Request in Election Case”

September 27, 2023, 7:08 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen
NYT: Lawyers representing former President Donald J. Trump against federal charges accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election offered an outraged response on Monday to the government’s request for a gag order, saying the attempt to “muzzle” him… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video of Today’s Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar, “How Should Platforms Handle Election Speech and Disinformation in 2024”

September 26, 2023, 4:28 pmcheap speech, social media and social protestsRick Hasen
This was a great conversation with Katie Harbath, Josh Lawson, Yoel Roth and Brandon Tucker. I moderated this event, which was cosponsored at UCLA Law with the Safeguarding Democracy Project and the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy. Watch:

Fascinating Election Law Issue Raised in Petition for Review to California Supreme Court

September 26, 2023, 3:49 pmdirect democracy, votingRick Hasen
The Petition for Review in Alliance San Diego v. City of San Diego raises a very interesting issue: QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. The City of San Diego (the “City”) held an election on an initiative proposing a special tax (Measure C)… Continue reading

“Maine Referendum Spotlights Voting Rights for People Under Guardianship “

September 26, 2023, 3:33 pmvoters with disabilitiesRick Hasen
Bolts: Since its drafting in 1819, Maine’s constitution has barred people who are “under guardianship for reasons of mental illness” from voting in state and local elections. The state legislature tried to end that exclusion decades ago, putting constitutional amendments… Continue reading

PlanScore Updated Through 2022 Elections

September 26, 2023, 7:42 amUncategorizedNicholas Stephanopoulos
PlanScore is now updated with partisan fairness data about congressional and state legislative plans through the 2022 election. Below are maps showing the biases of congressional plans in 2022 and 2012 (in that order). The improvement in 2022 in states… Continue reading

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Rick Hasen

Professor of Law and Political Science
UCLA School of Law
Director, Safeguarding Democracy Project

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Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
@tabathaabuelhaj
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Sam Bagenstos

Frank G. Millard Professor of Law, University of Michigan (on leave)
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Bruce E. Cain

Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
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Guy-Uriel E. Charles

Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Edward B. Foley

Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law, The Ohio State University
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Heather K. Gerken

Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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Abbe Gluck

Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law at Yale Law School (on leave)
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Anita Krishnakumar

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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Justin Levitt

Professor of Law at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Derek T. Muller

Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
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Spencer A. Overton

Professor of Law,
The George Washington University Law School
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Nate Persily

James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
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Richard H. Pildes

Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
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Dan Tokaji

Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
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Franita Tolson

Interim Dean and George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law at USC Gould School of Law
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Recent Books by Rick Hasen

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It

Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics--and How to Cure It (Yale University Press, 2022)
Cheap Speech book website

Named one of the best books on disinformation by the New York Times

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials

Election Law–Cases and Materials (7th edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2022) (with Daniel Hays Lowenstein, Daniel P. Tokaji, and Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos)

2023 Casebook Supplement (Free)

Election Meltdown

Election Meltdown book cover

Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
(Yale University Press, 2020)

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations

Legislation, Statutory Interpretation, and Election Law: Examples & Explanations (2d ed. Wolters Kluwer, 2020)

Recent ELB Podcast Episodes

The ELB Podcast

The ELB Podcast

Season 5, Episode 1 The Trump Indictments, the 2024 Elections, and Public Peace

Season 4, Episode 10 U.S. Democracy and the Independent State Legislature Theory after Moore v. Harper

More podcast episodes ›

Recent Op-Eds & Commentaries by Rick Hasen

Why Georgia Might Beat the Feds at Holding Trump Accountable, Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2023

U.S. v. Trump Will Be the Most Important Case in Our Nation’s History, Slate, August 1, 2023

John Roberts’ Big Complaint About Elena Kagan is Deeply Ironic, Slate, July 5, 2023

There’s a Time Bomb in Progressives’ Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win, Slate, June 27, 2023

There Are Still Two Major Legal Threats to the Voting Rights Act, Slate, June 12, 2023

John Roberts Throws a Curveball, New York Times, June 8, 2023

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation, Slate, June 1 2023 (with Dahlia Lithwick)

The Urgent Warning That Got Cut from a Supreme Court Opinion 20 Years Ago, Slate, May 30, 2023

What the Court’s Would Do If the Succession Fire Played Out in Real Life, Slate, May 15, 2023

Why It’s Fine that Fox and Dominion Settled, Slate, April 19, 2023

The Effort to Suppress the Vote is Spreading to the Republican Mainstream, Slate, April 11, 2023 (with Dahlia Lithwick)

Donald Trump Probably Should Not Have Been Charged with (This) Felony, Slate, April 4, 2023

Unfortunately, the Biggest Election Case of the Supreme Court Term Could Soon Be Moot, Slate, February 6, 2023

Meta is Bringing Trump Back to Facebook. It Should Keep Him on a Short Leash to Protect Democracy, Slate, January 25, 2023

I’ve Been Way More Worried About American Democracy Than I Am Right Now, Slate, November 14, 2022

The Courts are the Only Thing Holding Back Total Election Subversion, The Atlantic, November 2, 2022

An Arizona Court Seems to Think Voter Intimidation Isn’t Voter Intimidation, NBC News Think, November 1, 2022

The Supreme Court is Headed for a Self-Imposed Voting Caseload Disaster, Slate, October 26, 2022 (with Nat Bach)

The Truly Scary Part About the 1.6 Billion Conservative Donation, Slate, August 23, 2022 (with Dahlia Lithwick)

What the Critics Get Incredibly Wrong About the Collins-Manchin Election Bill, Slate, July 25, 2022

It’s Hard to Overstate the Danger of the Voting Case the Supreme Court Just Agreed to Hear, Slate, June 30, 2022

No One is Above the Law, and that Starts with Donald Trump, N.Y. Times, June 24, 2022

The Jan. 6 Committee Should Be Looking Ahead to Election Threats in 2024, Wash. Post, June 8, 2022

The One Group That Can Stop Elon Musk from Unbanning Trump on Twitter, Slate, May 10, 2022

Facebook and Twitter Could Let Trump Back Online. But He’s Still a Danger, Washington Post, Mar. 9, 2022

How Supreme Court Radicalism Could Threaten Democracy Itself, Slate, Mar. 8, 2022

How to Keep the Rising Tide of Fake News from Drowning Our Democracy, N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 2022

North Carolina Republicans Ask SCOTUS To Decimate Voting Rights in Every State, Slate, Feb. 25, 2022

What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It, Slate, Jan. 4, 2022

No One is Coming to Save Us from the ‘Dagger at the Throat of America,’ N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2022

More op-eds and commentaries by Rick ›

Recent Academic Articles and Working Papers by Rick Hasen

Nonprofit Law as a Tool to Kill What Remains of Campaign Finance Law: Reluctant Lessons from Ellen Aprill, 46 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (forthcoming 2023) (festschrift symposium honoring Ellen Aprill), draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4353037

Election Reform: Past, Present, and Future in Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene Mazo, ed., forthcoming 2023), draft available: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4218256

Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States, 135 Harvard Law Review Forum 265 (2022)

Research Note: Record Election Litigation Rates in the 2020 Election: An Aberration or a Sign of Things to Come?, Election Law Journal, https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.1089/elj.2021.0050 (2022)

Optimism and Despair About a 2020 “Election Meltdown” and Beyond, 100 Boston University Law Review Online 298 (2020) (part of symposium on my book, Election Meltdown)

Three Pathologies of American Voting Rights Illuminated by the COVID-19 Pandemic, and How to Treat and Cure Them, Election Law Journal (2020)

More academic articles by Rick Hasen ›

Recent Books by ELB Contributors

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

Gerkin – The Democracy Index

The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It
by Heather K. Gerken

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Persily – Social Media and Democracy

Social Media and Democracy
(Cambridge Press, 2020)
by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

Pildes – The Law of Democracy

The Law of Democracy: Legal Structure of the Political Process, 6th ed.
(Foundation Press, 2022)
by Samuel Issacharoff, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard H. Pildes, Nathaniel Persily, and Franita Tolson

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Tokaji – Election Law in a Nutshell

Election Law in a Nutshell (2d ed., West Academic Publishing, 2017)
by Daniel P. Tokaji

Podcasts by ELB Contributors

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Tolson – Free and Fair Podcast

Free & Fair with Franita and Foley
Franita Tolson and Edward Foley

Recent Articles by ELB Contributors

Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Networking the Party: First Amendment Rights & the Pursuit of Responsive Party Government, 118 Colum. L. Rev. 1225 (2018).

Bruce E. Cain, Wendy K. Tam Cho, Yan Y. Liu & Emily R. Zhang, A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluate Redistricting Proposals, 59 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1521 (2018).

Edward B. Foley, Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections: Harnessing Federalism to Combat Extremism (May 10, 2021). Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper No. 61

Anita S. Krishnakumar, Cracking the Whole Code Rule (February 19, 2020). St. John’s Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-0002, New York University Law Review, Forthcoming

Justin Levitt, Failed Elections and the Legislative Selection of Electors, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1052 (2021)

Derek T. Muller, Election Subversion and the Writ of Mandamus, William & Mary Law Review (forthcoming)

Spencer Overton, Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression. GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-23, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2020-23, 53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1793 (2020)

Nicholas Stephanopoulos, The Sweep of the Electoral Power (October 20, 2020). Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming, Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 21-07

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