ELB Podcast Rick Hasen

To what extent have abortion politics been the driver of campaign finance fights in the courts?

How much of a force has anti-abortion lawyer Jim Bopp been in the campaign finance cases?

Are new efforts to make it harder to pass abortion initiatives going to change voters’ access to direct democracy?

On Season 4, Episode 8 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with law professor and historian Mary Ziegler, author of the new book, Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment.

How do Republican voters think about Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election?

What are voters’ attitudes towards authoritarianism and the rule of law?

How will election denialism play out in the 2024 Republican presidential primary?

On Season 4, Episode 7 of the ELB podcast, we speak with GOP pollster and publisher of The Bulwark, Sarah Longwell.

Does our decentralized system of government create conditions to strengthen or weaken democratic institutions?

Why have red and blue states adopted different sets of election rules, with some Republican states adopting restrictive registration and voting laws?

Would more a more national election process in the United States protect against the risk of election subversion?

On Season 4, Episode 6 of the ELB Podcast we speak with University of Washington Professor Jake Grumbach, author of the book “Laboratories Against Democracy.”

Can an attempt an election subversion in the 1940s teach us how to handle current threats to American democracy?

Do failed attempts to hold Nazi sympathizers in the American government accountable through criminal litigation show the limits of the law in protecting democracy?

What role can and should journalists play in safeguarding free and fair elections today?

On Season 4, Episode 5 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with journalist Rachel Maddow, producer and narrator of the new podcast series, “Ultra.”

Did the 2022 U.S. midterm elections demonstrate that we have moved beyond risks to American democracy?

What explains continued, persistent divisions across the American public along party lines?

Does there remain a potential for violence associated with future U.S. elections?

On Season 4, Episode 4 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch of UCLA’s political science department.

Does former president Donald Trump know—and does he care—that the statements he has made undermining the integrity of the 2020 electionrun the risk of undermining the core of American democracy?

Is election denialism bigger than Trump’s hold over the GOP?

What should the Republicans, Democrats, the Press, and others do to counter concerns about threats to free elections in the United States?

On Season 4 episode 3 of the ELB Podcast, we speak with New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, author of the new book, Confidence Man.