Richard Hasen

Mar 30, 2025 | yalelawjournal.org | Richard Hasen

This Feature describes the stagnation and retrogression of election-law doctrine, politics, and theory, explains why these trends have emerged, and explores how to transform election law in a pro-voter direction. It begins by detailing election law’s stagnation. After a short period of strengthening voting rights, courts (and especially the Supreme Court), acting along ideological—and now partisan—lines, have pulled back on voter protections in most areas of election law.

Mar 27, 2025 | slate.com | Richard Hasen

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Although it has been more than a decade since judicial and administrative rulings freed the ultrawealthy to contribute unlimited sums to outside political groups, 2024 marked a sea change in the financing of federal elections—and those changes are already spreading to state and local elections, including the upcoming high-stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

Mar 26, 2025 | msnbc.com | Richard Hasen

By design, presidents have no power over the conduct of federal elections. President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on election administration aims to flip that, trying to take power from both an independent bipartisan federal agency and from the states, in an affront to principles of federalism. This dangerous power grab signals further democratic backsliding. Most other democracies such as Canada or Australia have a national body that administers national elections.

Jan 3, 2025 | slate.com | Richard Hasen |Jeremy Stahl

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Nov 6, 2024 | electionlawblog.org | Richard Hasen