Richard Hasen

American legal scholar

28 stories

32 quotes

If Democrats retake the Senate, the pressure on Alito to retire during the lame duck from conservatives will be immense,
I believe they are constitutionally protected,
Both legal and practical reasons make this practically impossible to enforce,
This doesn’t necessarily mean anything in terms of November."
It’s not clear that any of these reforms helped elect more moderates or limit polarization,
It was a tired speech with recycled and debunked claims,

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Justice Department Threatens Top Election Officials Over Noncitizen Voting

The New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/07…

The letters, signed by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the department's Civil Rights Division, give states five days to explain how they will comply with federal voter eligibility requirements and maintain what the department called "clean voter lists," NBC News reported Wednesday

Newsmaxnewsmax.com/politics/doj…

Facing setbacks and resistance, Trump presses bid to reshape elections on multiple fronts

Los Angeles Timeslatimes.com/politics/story…

“They can’t win a fair fight, which is why Trump is so obsessed with stealing voter rolls and purging voters and making up ridiculous claims about people not eligible as citizens for voting,” she said, calling his claims about rampant election fraud “so vanishingly non-existent, it’s laughable.”

HuffPosthuffpost.com/entry/hillary…

California’s mail-invoting in spotlight after Trump, GOP criticism of vote-counting

The Hillthehill.com/homenews/campaign…

When President Donald Trump made claims of Democratic vote-rigging in the Los Angeles election, his top appointed prosecutor in the city took to the cameras to validate those beliefs while hinting his office may never be able prove that kind of grand conspiracy

CNNcnn.com/2026/06…