Rick Hasen

professor of law and the director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA

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Rick Hasen is Chancellor's Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, where he also writes the Election Law blog. The author of The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown and Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections, he is a former William H. Rains fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California.

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The U.S. Supreme Court heard hours of oral arguments in a case that will decide whether state courts can review legislative maps and overturn local election laws.

SCOTUS hears case that could ‘completely upend elections’ in US

The U.S. Supreme Court heard hours of oral arguments in a case that will decide whether state courts can review legislative maps and overturn local election laws.

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Trump’s team had a plan to invalidate Biden’s White House win and knew some of their own claims were bogus

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