Welcome back for another week of What’s Next, where we report on the intersection of law and technology. If 2020 is anything like 2016, we’re in for a long year. Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at the University of California, Irvine, forecasts the perils and proposed solutions to election interference ahead of the presidential election. Plus, presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard sues Google with the help of Big Law. And legal experts react to the Department of Justice’s settlement regarding the proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger. Let’s chat: Email me at [email protected] and follow me on Twitter at @a_lancaster3.
Rick Hasen, chancellor’s professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine.Getting Out the Voting Interference
Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, emphasized last week that the interference in the 2016 presidential election was not a one-off event. “They are doing it while we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign,” Mueller said in his congressional testimony last week. A 61-page report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sketches out just how helpless a local election IT staffer is against “Russia’s cyber army.” Rick Hasen, chancellor’s professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, says Congress likely won’t be passing election interference legislation on a federal level. Instead, the United State’s counties and states are all that’s between the 2020 presidential election and Russia’s hoard of hackers.
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