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“Loyola-L.A. Hosts Festschrift, Symposium, And Celebration To Honor Ellen Aprill”

March 27, 2023, 6:24 amelection law biz, tax law and election lawRick Hasen
It was a delight to participate in this event honoring my friend and colleague, Ellen Aprill: Loyola-L.A. hosted a festschrift, live symposium, and celebration to honor Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.; Google Scholar) yesterday: Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame; Google Scholar… Continue reading

“Did voter fraud kill Edgar Allan Poe?”

March 27, 2023, 6:15 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
WaPo: He’s our reigning master of the macabre, whose ghostly imagination still transports us to the eeriest of places. But one of Edgar Allan Poe’s darkest stories didn’t come from his pen. It’s the haunting mystery of his own death.… Continue reading

“Another political hush-money case offers clues to a possible Donald Trump defense”

March 27, 2023, 6:13 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
Fredreka Schouten for CNN: Americans have heard the story before: A lurid tale of a presidential candidate accused of arranging hush-money payments to conceal an alleged affair. But if former President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury… Continue reading

“Trump Puts His Legal Peril at Center of First Big Rally for 2024”

March 26, 2023, 10:14 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen
NYT: Former President Donald J. Trump spent much of his first major political rally of the 2024 campaign portraying his expected indictment by a New York grand jury as a result of what he claimed was a Democratic conspiracy to… Continue reading

“GOP states press voter photo ID rules, with unclear effects”

March 26, 2023, 10:07 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
AP: As Ohio’s primary approaches, a strict new photo ID requirement is stirring concerns for military veterans and out-of-state college students, in Amish communities and among older voters. Other Republican-led states are moving in the same direction as they… Continue reading

“Kari Lake ballot signature challenge: What to know about the claims, the evidence and the law”

March 26, 2023, 10:02 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
Arizona Republic: In her lengthy lawsuit first filed in December, Lake argued that based on “information and belief,” “a material number” of votes with signatures that were not properly verified were counted and could have altered the outcome of the… Continue reading

“Former Trump Officials Must Testify in 2020 Election Inquiry, Judge Says”

March 25, 2023, 11:23 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
NYT: A federal judge has ruled that a number of former officials from President Donald J. Trump’s administration — including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows — cannot invoke executive privilege to avoid testifying to a grand jury investigating… Continue reading

“Russian Emails Behind DA Bomb Hoax Amid Trump Probe”

March 24, 2023, 11:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
Law360: Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former president Donald Trump. Security has ramped up outside… Continue reading

“Trump, Escalating Attacks, Raises Specter of Violence if He Is Charged”

March 24, 2023, 7:43 amchicanery, election subversion riskRick Hasen
NYT: In an overnight social media post, former President Donald J. Trump predicted that “potential death and destruction” may result if, as expected, he is charged by the Manhattan district attorney in connection with hush-money payments to a porn star… Continue reading

“Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate OK with Jan. 6 participant”

March 23, 2023, 1:30 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen
AP: The Republican-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court said Thursday that he had no problem with someone who was on the U.S. Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection campaigning for him across the state in the waning… Continue reading

Rutgers Law Review Symposium: “The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment”

March 23, 2023, 11:19 amUncategorizedRick Hasen
Looks like some terrific contributions here: The Future Is Unwritten: Reclaiming the Twenty-Sixth Amendment Yael Bromberg In April 2022, Rutgers University Law Review hosted the first law symposium ever to be dedicated to the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, resulting in this… Continue reading

Richard Bernstein: “The U.S. Supreme Court Should Vacate and Remand in Moore v. Harper”

March 23, 2023, 7:58 amlegislation and legislatures, Supreme CourtRick Hasen
The following is a guest post from Richard Bernstein, who wrote this amicus brief in Moore v. Harper but who expresses his own views here: Although I wrote and joined an amici brief supporting affirmance in Moore v. Harper, recent… Continue reading

“Fake images of Trump arrest show ‘giant step’ for AI’s disruptive power”

March 23, 2023, 7:35 amcheap speechRick Hasen
WaPo: Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, was reading this week about the expected indictment of Donald Trump when he decided he wanted to visualize it. He turned to an AI art generator, giving the technology… Continue reading

“Arizona Supreme Court rejects most of Kari Lake’s election challenge”

March 23, 2023, 7:26 amrecountsRick Hasen
Arizona Republic: Arizona’s top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake’s claims back to a county judge to review. Lake asked… Continue reading

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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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Anita Krishnakumar

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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Derek T. Muller

Bouma Fellow in Law and Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
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Spencer A. Overton

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Nate Persily

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

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Franita Tolson

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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)

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 4, Episode 6 Jake Grumbach: Laboratories Against Democracy

Season 4, Episode 5 Rachel Maddow: What “Ultra” Can Teach Us About Threats to Democracy Today

Season 4, Episode 4 Lynn Vavreck & Chris Tausanovitch: Lessons for Democracy from the 2022 Midterm Elections

Season 4, Episode 3 Maggie Haberman: Trump, Trumpism and the Threats to American Democracy

Season 4, Episode 2 Moore v. Harper and Potential Threats to American Democracy

Season 4, Episode 1 Fixing the Electoral Count Act to Stop Future Stolen Elections
More podcast episodes ›

Recent Op-Eds & Commentaries by Rick Hasen

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, Weaponizing the Ballot. 48 Florida State University Law Review 61 (2021)

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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