Rick Hasen
@rickhasen.bsky.social
Professor, UCLA Law; Director, http://SafeguardingDemocracyProject.org; 2020 CNN, 2024 NBC/MSNBC Election Law Analyst; electionlawblog.org
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Rick Hasen
@rickhasen.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Very Excited to Announce My New Book Project, “Unbent Arc: The Rise and Decline of American Democracy 1964-2024)” electionlawblog.org?p=152307
I’m very excited to be working on this major project, bringing together my many strands of research on democracy and election law.
I’m very excited to be working on this major project, bringing together my many strands of research on democracy and election law.
“Utah’s new congressional map could get judicial approval by next week” electionlawblog.org?p=152965
"Utah's new congressional map could get judicial approval by next week" #ELB
KSL reports.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Utah’s new congressional map could get judicial approval by next week” electionlawblog.org?p=152965
“Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=152969
"Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election" #ELB
NYT: President Trump has granted pardons to his former lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and a wide array of other people accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, accordin...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election” electionlawblog.org?p=152969
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Bonkers 5th Circuit Opinion Holding that Federal Law Prohibits the Counting of Timely Mailed Ballots That Arrive after Election Day electionlawblog.org?p=152963
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Bonkers 5th Circuit Opinion Holding that Federal Law Prohibits the Counting of Timely Mailed Ballots That Arrive after Election Day #ELB
The cert grant is here. Here is what I wrote when the 5th Circuit first decided this case: Fifth Circuit in Bonkers Opinion Holds It Violates Federal Law for Miss. to Accept Ballots Postmarked by Elec...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Breaking: Supreme Court Agrees to Review Bonkers 5th Circuit Opinion Holding that Federal Law Prohibits the Counting of Timely Mailed Ballots That Arrive after Election Day electionlawblog.org?p=152963
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“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
“How an Adam Schiff indictment could shake the Senate” electionlawblog.org?p=152959
"How an Adam Schiff indictment could shake the Senate" #ELB
Politico: President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his political adversaries could soon hit the Senate — and lawmakers are already bracing for impact. After securing the indictments of fo...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“How an Adam Schiff indictment could shake the Senate” electionlawblog.org?p=152959
“Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land” electionlawblog.org?p=152957
"Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land" #ELB
NYT: Far-right influencers have been hinting in recent weeks that they have finally found a venue — Miami — and a federal prosecutor — Jason A. Reding Quiñones — to pursue long-promised charges of a “...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“Trump Loyalists Push ‘Grand Conspiracy’ as New Subpoenas Land” electionlawblog.org?p=152957
“Insider: Mike Rogers ties 2024 Senate loss to a ‘van in Detroit with ballots'” electionlawblog.org?p=152955
"Insider: Mike Rogers ties 2024 Senate loss to a 'van in Detroit with ballots'" #ELB
Sigh: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers has claimed, at events in recent weeks, that a single van carrying ballots in Detroit “swung” his 2024 race against Democrat Elissa Slotkin, accordin...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Insider: Mike Rogers ties 2024 Senate loss to a ‘van in Detroit with ballots'” electionlawblog.org?p=152955
“Only 2 DOJ election monitors in Fresno County for Prop 50 vote, despite controversy” electionlawblog.org?p=152949
"Only 2 DOJ election monitors in Fresno County for Prop 50 vote, despite controversy" #ELB
The Fresno Bee reports.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Only 2 DOJ election monitors in Fresno County for Prop 50 vote, despite controversy” electionlawblog.org?p=152949
Republicans Ask for Preliminary Injunction in Prop 50 Case (It May Not All Get Resolved in Time for 2026 Elections) electionlawblog.org?p=152951
Republicans Ask for Preliminary Injunction in Prop 50 Case (It May Not All Get Resolved in Time for 2026 Elections) #ELB
Here’s the motion. More from Michael Li.
electionlawblog.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Republicans Ask for Preliminary Injunction in Prop 50 Case (It May Not All Get Resolved in Time for 2026 Elections) electionlawblog.org?p=152951
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As for who will hear the case: The case was assigned to U.S. district judge Josephine Staton (an Obama appointee). We're still waiting for the appointment of the other two members of the panel.
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As for who will hear the case: The case was assigned to U.S. district judge Josephine Staton (an Obama appointee). We're still waiting for the appointment of the other two members of the panel.
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NEW: The California Republican Party and other plaintiffs have filed a motion asking for a preliminary injunction blocking the new California congressional map.
Their brief here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1O1UX...
Their brief here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1O1UX...
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW: The California Republican Party and other plaintiffs have filed a motion asking for a preliminary injunction blocking the new California congressional map.
Their brief here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1O1UX...
Their brief here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1O1UX...
This seems right to me
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This seems right to me
One of the key things the Supreme Court is supposed to do on an emergency motion is to balance the hardships to each sides.
Here it is not even close--people starving v. the government not tapping a reserve they are supposed to tap anyway in the event of an emergency
Here it is not even close--people starving v. the government not tapping a reserve they are supposed to tap anyway in the event of an emergency
Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
One of the key things the Supreme Court is supposed to do on an emergency motion is to balance the hardships to each sides.
Here it is not even close--people starving v. the government not tapping a reserve they are supposed to tap anyway in the event of an emergency
Here it is not even close--people starving v. the government not tapping a reserve they are supposed to tap anyway in the event of an emergency
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Link to the filing: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
25A539
www.documentcloud.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Link to the filing: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
the protests from this Administration that their hands are tied by the law and the need not to step on Congress's prerogatives in making SNAP payments available to poor people would be laughable if it weren't so pernicious
for them it’s like the equivalent of ticking time bomb case. The most extraordinary and extreme efforts, and bending the way till it breaks, to head off the irreparable harm which in this case is allowing very poor Americans to purchase food.
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
the protests from this Administration that their hands are tied by the law and the need not to step on Congress's prerogatives in making SNAP payments available to poor people would be laughable if it weren't so pernicious
Talk about a way to ruin a weekend
NEW: Trump is asking Supreme Court to act by 9:30pm tonight to block the ruling that requires SNAP payments to be made.
November 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Talk about a way to ruin a weekend
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Is it possible that Trump DOJ is so mad at judges they just want to get a stay to prove a point and will make the payments anyway? It's all very weird.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Is it possible that Trump DOJ is so mad at judges they just want to get a stay to prove a point and will make the payments anyway? It's all very weird.
How indispensable is @chrisgeidner.bsky.social? Very. He is on top of these very important legal disputes every day.
BREAKING: First Circuit denies DOJ's request for an administrative stay of the SNAP benefits TRO out of Rhode Island.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How indispensable is @chrisgeidner.bsky.social? Very. He is on top of these very important legal disputes every day.
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BREAKING: First Circuit denies DOJ's request for an administrative stay of the SNAP benefits TRO out of Rhode Island.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
BREAKING: First Circuit denies DOJ's request for an administrative stay of the SNAP benefits TRO out of Rhode Island.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
DOJ's stay request remains pending, and the panel is working on a ruling on that.
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the Trump admin violated federal workers’ First Amendment rights by adding partisan speech in their out-of-office emails. As our amicus brief emphasized, this ruling reaffirms that nonpartisanship is a bedrock principle of civil service. 1/3
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that the Trump admin violated federal workers’ First Amendment rights by adding partisan speech in their out-of-office emails. As our amicus brief emphasized, this ruling reaffirms that nonpartisanship is a bedrock principle of civil service. 1/3
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The Onion, yet again, FTW.
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The Onion, yet again, FTW.
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California's redistricting commission has been good in isolation but unilateral disarmament from the start since the GOP drew several times more districts nationwide than Dems did after 2010.
Dems tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide in 2019 & 2021—but the GOP balked. This is the logical response
Dems tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide in 2019 & 2021—but the GOP balked. This is the logical response
My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
California's redistricting commission has been good in isolation but unilateral disarmament from the start since the GOP drew several times more districts nationwide than Dems did after 2010.
Dems tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide in 2019 & 2021—but the GOP balked. This is the logical response
Dems tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide in 2019 & 2021—but the GOP balked. This is the logical response
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Wow: California’s turnout rate was higher for Tuesday’s redistricting referendum than for the 2022 midterms
For my BlueSky peeps, here are the turnout rates (I cross-post my Substack posts on Xitter, but don't post goodies like this)
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Wow: California’s turnout rate was higher for Tuesday’s redistricting referendum than for the 2022 midterms
My torts exam writes itself.
The incident, which took place Thursday, left the man with minor burns, Melbourne International Airport confirmed to NBC News.
Man catches fire at airport business lounge after power bank explodes in his pocket
The incident, which took place Thursday, left the man with minor burns, Melbourne International Airport confirmed to NBC News.
nbcnews.to
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My torts exam writes itself.
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But I am really struck by the rapidity and scale of the government's retreat from its much more extensive and destructive list of demands that it tried to impose on schools at the start of this mess.
It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no."
But still, a notable shift.
It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no."
But still, a notable shift.
November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
But I am really struck by the rapidity and scale of the government's retreat from its much more extensive and destructive list of demands that it tried to impose on schools at the start of this mess.
It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no."
But still, a notable shift.
It would be far better if Cornell and other schools simply said "no."
But still, a notable shift.