“Republicans win a temporary freeze in New York’s redistricting fight”

September 19, 2023, 10:28 amredistrictingRick Hasen

Politico: Republicans won a preliminary round in latest legal fight over New York’s congressional districts: The state’s top court Tuesday declined to force a mapmaking commission to immediately start drafting new lines. The maps drawn in 2022 were tossed when… Continue reading

“‘My Vote Was Rejected’: Trial Underway in Texas Over New Voting Law”

September 19, 2023, 10:26 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

NYT: Since it went into effect, critics have raised concerns that the law would impede voters with disabilities, elderly voters and voters who do not speak English. The federal trial, now entering its second week, is providing an unusual opportunity… Continue reading

Michael Pal: Exporting Politics as Markets

September 19, 2023, 9:00 amPoliticsMarkets25Rick Hasen

The following is a post from Michael Pal, part of the Politics as Markets symposium: It’s a real pleasure to write a few words to honour “Politics as Markets” and all that it accomplished. For many of us outside… Continue reading

“How DeSantis Played Both Sides of the G.O.P. Rift Over the 2020 Election”

September 19, 2023, 7:51 amfraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: It resembled a political rally more than a news conference. In November 2021, exactly one year after Donald J. Trump lost the presidential election to Joseph R. Biden Jr., Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida spoke to a raucous crowd… Continue reading

“Former DOJ attorney acted under Trump’s direction, his lawyer says”

September 19, 2023, 7:46 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: As a Justice Department lawyer after the 2020 election, Jeffrey Clark drafted a letter to top Georgia officials declaring that the agency had reason to doubt the legitimacy of the state’s election only after he was pressed to do… Continue reading

Automatic Voter Registration to PA?

September 19, 2023, 7:39 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Greg Sargent WaPo column: Democrats won a whole lot of elections in 2022, in no small part on their vow to strengthen and defend democracy. But if they hope to turn the issue into a sustained political winner, they have… Continue reading

“Alabama Secretary of State unveils new voter roll management system after ERIC withdrawal”

September 19, 2023, 7:37 amvoter registrationRick Hasen

News from the States: Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen Monday said the state would launch its own database of registered voters after withdrawing from a national one earlier this year. Allen unveiled the Alabama Voter Integrity Database (AVID) to… Continue reading

Must Read Yoel Roth NYT Oped on Threats and Intimidation of Those Who Kept the 2020 Elections Safe

September 18, 2023, 1:45 pmacademic freedom, election subversion riskRick Hasen

This is truly must-read: When I worked at Twitter, I led the team that placed a fact-checking label on one of Donald Trump’s tweets for the first time. Following the violence of Jan. 6, I helped make the call to… Continue reading

Free SDP Event/Webinar September 26: “How Should Platforms Handle Election Speech and Disinformation in 2024?”

September 18, 2023, 8:14 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

How Should Platforms Handle Election Speech and Disinformation in 2024?Tuesday, September 26, 12:15pm – 1:15pmKatie Harbath (Anchor Change), Josh Lawson (Advisor to the Aspen Institute on A.I. and democracy-related risk, formerly of Meta) Yoel Roth (formerly of Twitter), and Brandon… Continue reading

“Politics as Markets” after 25 Years: Lowering Expectations about the Role of the Courts in U.S. Democracy

September 18, 2023, 7:50 amPoliticsMarkets25, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

It’s hard to overstate the importance to the legal academy of Sam Issacharoff and Rick Pildes’s article from 1998, Politics as Markets. Their shift of the focus of election law from rights and interests to the structure and function… Continue reading

“An About-Face on Whether the 14th Amendment Bars Trump From Office”

September 18, 2023, 7:49 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Adam Liptak NYT column: A little more than a month ago, a law professor who helped found the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, enthusiastically endorsed a new law review article arguing that Donald J. Trump was ineligible to be… Continue reading

“Mark Meadows’s Testimony in Georgia Case May Have Done Him No Favors”

September 18, 2023, 7:45 amchicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: At issue was whether his actions — as described in the indictment of Mr. Trump, Mr. Meadows and 17 others in Fulton County, Ga., last month — could be considered within the scope of his duties as White House… Continue reading

“Guns and Voting”

September 18, 2023, 7:40 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

New report from the Brennan Center and Giffords Law Center [corrected]: “To ensure that elections remain peaceful, states must ban guns at places where votes are cast and counted and enact stronger anti-intimidation laws.”

“Moore and Partisan Gerrymandering”

September 18, 2023, 7:38 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Manoj Mate has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article examines the impact of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Moore v. Harper on state partisan gerrymandering. Moore rejected the independent state legislature theory in affirming… Continue reading