The project was launched in part as a response to efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections by former President Donald Trump and his allies. | Scott Sonner/AP Photo
07/07/2022 04:31 AM EDT
A leading elections expert is launching a project at UCLA School of Law to promote democratic norms and “free and fair” elections in the U.S.
Rick Hasen, a professor at UCLA’s law school and one of the most prominent election law commentators in the country, is launching the “Safeguarding Democracy Project” on Thursday. The project, which was shared first with POLITICO, was launched in part as a response to efforts to undermine confidence in U.S. elections by former President Donald Trump and his allies, including calls to “decertify” the 2020 election.
The project will be advised by a number of well-known attorneys, legal experts and activists. The advisory board includes former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, who testified last month before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection; Janai S. Nelson, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; and Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook who is now the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, among others.
“The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, brought on by false claims about the 2020 presidential election, was the opening salvo of a concerted effort to subvert our electoral system,” Hasen said in a statement. “The Safeguarding...
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