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29 Feb 2024, 6:05 am by Rachel Kleinfeld
In the winter of 2017, I hosted a Venezuelan family at my home for dinner. [read post]
In January 2021, Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against Powell, claiming she defamed the company with her statements alleging that Dominion rigged the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, that the company was created in Venezuela to rig their elections in favor of Hugo Chavez and that Dominion bribed Georgia election officials so that they were the only company whose machines were used in Georgia. [read post]
26 Oct 2023, 11:02 am by Dennis Aftergut
” In October 2022, the New York Times dubbed Johnson “the most important architect of the Electoral College objections” on January 6, 2021.Weeks after the election, he amplified the debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems machines switched votes from Trump to Biden using a program that Hugo Chavez had demanded.That’s the false theory that cost Fox $787 million for promulgating it and helped secure last week’s guilty plea in Georgia from… [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 8:08 am
 Reports were all over the Internet that Hugo Chavez, who had been dead for years, had organized the hacking of voting machines in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Georgia. [read post]
18 Aug 2023, 10:50 am by Ilya Somin
Undermining judicial review through tools like court-packing is a standard tactic of incipient illiberal authoritarians like Hungary's Viktor Orban and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez as they seek to concentrate power in the executive; it's especially useful in the early stages of authoritarian consolidation. [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 7:01 am by Thomas J. Crane
The Sixth Circuit found numerous problems with the lawsuit, including: A claim that Dominion was founded to help former Venezuela President Hugo Chavez. [read post]
2 May 2023, 7:19 pm
At its limit, one is speaking here of the language of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro in the construction of  economic value measures in ALBA--a reconstitution indeed! [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 6:45 am by Laurence H. Tribe
The relevant statements in this case fall roughly into four silos: that Dominion rigged the election; that its software and algorithms manipulated vote counts; that the company is owned by a Venezuelan enterprise founded to rig elections for Hugo Chavez; and that Dominion paid kickbacks to government officials. [read post]
30 Mar 2023, 11:15 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
Masaki Iwasaki, Whistleblowers as Defenders of Human Rights: The Whistleblower Protection Act in Japan Anouska Perram & Norman Jiwan, Human Rights Violations Connected with Deforestation – Emerging and Diverging Approaches to Human Rights Due Diligence Jordi Vives-Gabriel & Hugo van der Merwe, Remedy and Accountability a Decade after the Marikana Massacre       [read post]
According to the committee, Trump and his “clown car” of allies spread malicious lies and conspiracies about the legitimacy of the machines, including that their software was somehow connected to deceased Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, China, Cuba, and “communist money. [read post]
Once authoritarian presidents start a second term in office, they often become nearly impossible to dislodge, as was the case with Hugo Chavez, Viktor Orbán, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, among many others. [read post]
5 Oct 2022, 7:15 am by Ilya Somin
Even now, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez (founders of Cuba's and Venezuela's socialist states) are heroes to some on the left. [read post]
31 Aug 2022, 5:08 am by Elise Thomas, Dean Jones
” Other stops in Ionov’s anti-globalization tour included Venezuela, where he claims to have cultivated ties with the country’s political elite—such as dictators Nicolas Maduro and the late Hugo Chavez, who was accompanied by members of AGMR during his trip to Moscow in 2013, according to independent Russian news site Meduza. [read post]
25 Jul 2022, 6:45 am by Unreported Opinions
Criminal procedure — Jury deliberations — Disclosure of unadmitted evidence Hugo Portillo-Chavez and Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez, appellants, were tried jointly before a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, and were each found guilty of murder in the first degree, and conspiracy to commit first degree murder. [read post]
12 May 2022, 9:00 pm by Dennis Aftergut
The suits come from ballot counting machine manufacturers, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.You may recall that former General Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell was all over television in the post-election period falsely claiming that those companies’ machines were programmed by former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to rig elections.In December 2020, after Smartmatic issued a demand letter to Fox News, it ran a full story in which an expert contradicted… [read post]
24 Mar 2022, 6:01 am by Joshua Braver
A review of Noah Feldman, “The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). *** “It only has been radicals who have changed this country. [read post]
16 Mar 2022, 9:37 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  "She filled out the wrong answers, but Hugo Chavez's computers changed her score! [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 12:32 pm by The Silber Law Firm LLC
As relevant to this discussion, the facts involved an agreement between the parties, entered into before Hugo Chavez came to power, that called for the arbitration of any disputes in Caracas, Venezuela. [read post]