Richard L. Hasen

Richard L. Hasen is a professor of law at UCLA and the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project. He is the author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics—and How to Cure It, and the forthcoming A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.  

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Two Supreme Court Justices Invited an All-Out Assault on the Voting Rights Act. Now It’s Here.
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May 14, 2025 4:11 PM
We’re Getting Dangerously Close to a Losing North Carolina Candidate Being Declared the Winner
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April 14, 2025 12:53 PM
What Elon Musk Won in Wisconsin
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April 03, 2025 3:55 PM
The Ultrarich Have Reshaped Presidential Elections. Here’s Where They’re Looking Next.
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March 27, 2025 5:40 AM
One Possible Explanation for Justice Merchan’s Last-Second Decision to Sentence Trump
Richard L. Hasen and Jeremy Stahl
Jan 03, 2025 5:31 PM
Thousands of Pennsylvania Ballots Will Be Tossed on a Technicality. Thank SCOTUS.
Richard L. Hasen
Nov 04, 2024 10:00 AM
Why the “Blue Shift” Everyone Seems to Have Forgotten Might Be More Dangerous This Time
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Oct 24, 2024 11:08 AM
Elon Musk Might Have Broken the Law Against Bribing Voters. Whoops!
Richard L. Hasen
Oct 16, 2024 3:20 PM
Why the Supreme Court May Not Decide the 2024 Election After All
Richard L. Hasen
Oct 10, 2024 11:35 AM
Jack Smith’s Big New Jan. 6 Brief Is a Major Indictment of the Supreme Court
Richard L. Hasen
Oct 02, 2024 5:44 PM
A Last-Minute Effort to Mess With the 2024 Vote Is Underway. It’s Scarier Than Expected.
Richard L. Hasen
Sept 20, 2024 3:19 PM
Kamala Harris Will Have No Problems Getting on All of the Ballots
Richard L. Hasen
July 22, 2024 5:50 AM
Democrats Sure Aren’t Acting as if Trump Beating Biden Is an Existential Threat to Democracy
Richard L. Hasen
July 10, 2024 10:54 AM
Trump Immunity Ruling Will Be John Roberts’ Legacy to American Democracy
Richard L. Hasen
July 01, 2024 3:20 PM
The First Amendment Just Dodged an Enormous Bullet at the Supreme Court
Richard L. Hasen
July 01, 2024 1:35 PM
That Big Jan. 6 Supreme Court Decision Is Not the Win for Trump People Think It Is
Richard L. Hasen
June 28, 2024 12:58 PM
A Democratic Super PAC’s New Trump Ad Might Be Borderline Criminal
Richard L. Hasen
June 26, 2024 11:51 AM
2016 Election Fraudster “Ricky Vaughn” Might Finally Be About to Face the Music
Richard L. Hasen
April 01, 2024 5:45 AM
The Supreme Court Just Delivered a Rare Self-Own for John Roberts
Richard L. Hasen
March 05, 2024 4:55 PM
It’s Past Time to Quit Hoping the Courts Are Going to Stop Trump
Richard L. Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick
March 04, 2024 3:56 PM