Renowned Election Lawyer Has Choice Words For Those Threatening To Sue DNC Over Nominating Kamala Harris As Presidential Candidate

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[I]f your attorneys are telling you that they’ll forestall the DNC from nominating its candidate of alternative, they’re idiots. I do know rather a lot about that, since I beat them greater than 60x in courtroom after the 2020 election.

— Distinguished election lawyer Marc Elias, founding father of Democracy Docket and chair of Elias Regulation Group, in response to a tweet by Home Speaker Mike Johnson, who claimed that the Democratic Get together “will face authorized challenges in making an attempt to take away Biden from the highest of the ticket.” Elias earned the title of Above the Regulation’s 2020 Lawyer of the 12 months for his heroic efforts to guard the voting rights of all Individuals in addition to the legitimacy of 2020’s election outcomes.

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