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My New One at Slate with Dahlia Lithwick: There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation

June 1, 2023, 7:47 amSupreme Court, Voting Rights ActRick Hasen
Dahlia Lithwick and I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: It was impossible to listen to oral arguments this past Supreme Court term without being struck by the way this court’s conservative supermajority views the 14th Amendment. According… Continue reading

“Lawsuit challenges $3,700 fee, other new restrictions, on Montana citizen initiative process”

June 1, 2023, 5:46 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
From the Daily Montanan: Ten Montanans, including former elected officials and Constitutional Convention delegates, have sued the state arguing a bill that adds a host of new requirements for people trying to get initiatives and constitutional amendments onto the ballot… Continue reading

“Would growing the House make it more efficient? Probably not”

June 1, 2023, 5:28 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
From this piece in The Hill by Steven Lubet: Adding members to the House will only increase partisanship and feed extremism, as the behavior of state legislatures has amply demonstrated…. Smaller districts would theoretically bring representatives closer to the people,… Continue reading

“A History of Third-Party Voter Registration Drives”

June 1, 2023, 5:23 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
Josh Douglas has this detailed report on the subject for The Institute for Responsive Government. He also has a related piece for the Washington Monthly which criticizes Florida’s new restrictions on third-party registration efforts.

“Florida elections officials quietly made it easier for Ron DeSantis to fund his 2024 bid”

June 1, 2023, 5:12 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
NBC News: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has quietly changed state guidelines, essentially giving its blessing for a state-level political committee he previously ran to move millions of dollars to a super PAC helping his presidential campaign. For years, elections officials… Continue reading

“Trump White House Aides Subpoenaed in Firing of Election Security Expert”

June 1, 2023, 5:09 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
NYT: “The special counsel is scrutinizing the dismissal of Christopher Krebs, who contradicted baseless claims by the former president that the 2020 election was marred by fraud.”

Independent State Legislature Theory, Voting Rights Act Watch Today

June 1, 2023, 5:00 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
The Supreme Court hands down opinions today at 10 am EST. The Alabama Voting Rights Act case, Allen v. Milligan, is the only argued case from the Court’s first sitting in October that has yet to be decided. The two… Continue reading

“Voter Fraud Is Rare. But 15 Illegal Votes in Laredo Have Thrown the City Council Into Turmoil.”

June 1, 2023, 3:56 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
This is pretty wild: a court found that enough people had illegally established sham residencies in Laredo TX to change the outcome of a city council election. The court declared the plaintiff the rightful winner of the election. Meanwhile, the… Continue reading

“‘Numbers Nobody Has Ever Seen’: How the GOP Lost Wisconsin”

June 1, 2023, 3:37 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
This Politico story raises the question of whether WI is shifting left, with the post-Dobbs abortion issue playing a major role: “We got our butts kicked,” Rohn Bishop, Bachleitner’s predecessor as chair of the Fond du Lac County GOP and,… Continue reading

“NC lawmakers expected to roll out major election law changes, with input from former Trump lawyer”

June 1, 2023, 3:28 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
From WRAL News: The 2024 elections in North Carolina could be conducted under far stricter rules under a proposal being crafted behind closed doors by Republican lawmakers — with input from a lawyer best known for assisting in efforts… Continue reading

Former Cochise County Election Director Receives $130,000 Settlement from State Fund Because She Refused to Act Illegally

May 31, 2023, 11:42 amUncategorizedRichard Pildes
This relates to the effort of some election officials to require a hand count of the 2022 ballots in Cochise County, AZ, despite the legal conclusions of the relevant county election lawyers that such a hand count would be illegal… Continue reading

Nevada Republican Party sues to stop from being forced to use a presidential primary instead of a caucus

May 31, 2023, 10:25 ampolitical parties, primariesDerek Muller
A Nevada news outlet has the details here, and the news release from the Nevada Republican Party is here. It took me a while to find the complaint, which was filed in state court last week in a… Continue reading

In 2004 Partisan Gerrymandering Case, Justice Scalia Originally Had a Majority with J. Kennedy Joining, and J. Souter Was Going to Concur in the Judgment Not Dissent

May 31, 2023, 7:19 amredistricting, Supreme CourtRick Hasen
I did not have time when I was at the Library of Congress looking at Justice Stevens’ papers to give a close read to the file in Vieth v. Jubelirer, a 2004 partisan gerrymandering case. In that case, four… Continue reading

Sending Healing Thoughts and Strength to Gerry Hebert

May 31, 2023, 6:55 amelection law bizRick Hasen
Our friend Gerry Hebert, with a long and distinguished career in voting rights at the Department of Justice and at the Campaign Legal Center (not to mention his role as “Bailout King“), is ill with brain cancer. Jerry… 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

Bouma Fellow in Law and Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
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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

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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 8 Mary Ziegler: Dollars for Life: Money, Politics and Abortion

Season 4, Episode 7 Sarah Longwell: Election Denialism and the Future of the Republican Party

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

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, 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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