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Rick Hasen

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Professor, UCLA Law; Director, SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2022 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org

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Wisconsin: “Police in Glendale remove election observers for being disruptive while objecting to ballots” electionlawblog.org?p=144267

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“After controversial court rulings, a Voting Rights Act lawsuit takes an unusual turn” electionlawblog.org?p=144271

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“Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Aside” electionlawblog.org?p=144273

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Not an endorsement; just a factual point.

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In New Supreme Court Social Media Case, Echoes of Citizens United on “AntiDistortion” and the Foreign Campaign Spending Ban, with Implications for Shutting Down Tik-Tok electionlawblog.org?p=144213

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In New Supreme Court Social Media Case, Echoes of Citizens United on “AntiDistortion” and the Foreign Campaign Spending Ban, with Implications for Shutting Down Tik-Tok electionlawblog.org?p=144213

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Chilling point from @rickhasen.bsky.social on SCOTUS ruling and second Trump term, on today's pod:

"You want to know how far this opinion goes? Just wait six months. He's going to get advice as to what his maximal power is. We may find out sooner rather than later how far these powers go."

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The Supreme Court’s Irresponsible Murkiness Over Whether the President Could Remove His Attorney General by Poisoning Him in the New Trump Immunity Case electionlawblog.org?p=144205

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is torture an official act? are war crimes? both are criminal under U.S. law. what happens to presidential command responsibility? also, if POTUS is immune from prosecution, there is no complementarity. the court has made it easier for the ICC to pursue cases ag american presidents.

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This is the key point I have been trying to make:

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My new one @Slate: "Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy"
Is the Supreme Court obtuse or disingenuous? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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The Supreme Court ruling on absolute immunity gives the president "something like the immunity that a king in England would have enjoyed," says @rickhasen.bsky.social on this pod. "And that immunity is great power."

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The conservative justices seem to love this trick of faking a remarkable naïveté to argue for profoundly cynical outcomes. It’s not hard to imagine what Trump could do: he’s already dangled the promises of pardons to disrupt prosecutions

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My (other) new one @Slate, on today's #SCOTUS Supreme Court ruling: "The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court,. Some good news from an otherwise bleak end of the Supreme Court term.
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As @rickhasen.bsky.social just wrote for Slate, "Roberts’ failure to even acknowledge [the] risks … is going to be Roberts’ legacy for American democracy. That is, if our democracy survives."

The U.S. can choose elite impunity, as Roberts would enshrine, or the rule of law — but not both.

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My new one @Slate: "Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy"
Is the Supreme Court obtuse or disingenuous? slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote Holds Trump Immune for Official Acts; Remand for Fact Intensive Questions of Whether Some of Trump’s Election Subversion Efforts Were Not Official Acts. No Chance of Trial Before Election electionlawblog.org?p=144176

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Breaking: Plaintiffs, Likely Fearing the Supreme Court Will Make Things Worse, Decline to Seek Supreme Court Review of Eighth Circuit Case Holding There’s No Right For Private Parties to Sue Under Section 2 of Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=144102

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Don’t Let the Dismal Biden Debate Performance Overshadow Donald Trump’s Whitewashing of January 6 and His Refusal to Commit to Accepting the Results of the 2024 Election electionlawblog.org?p=144089

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