This election lawyer is just telling it like it is, and sometimes the truth can be insulting.
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[I]f your lawyers are telling you that they can prevent the DNC from nominating its candidate of choice, they are idiots. I know a lot about that, since I beat them more than 60x in court after the 2020 election.
— Prominent election lawyer Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and chair of Elias Law Group, in response to a tweet by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who claimed that the Democratic Party “will face legal challenges in trying to remove Biden from the top of the ticket.” Elias earned the title of Above the Law’s 2020 Lawyer of the Year for his heroic efforts to protect the voting rights of all Americans as well as the legitimacy of 2020’s election results.
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