{"id":137600,"date":"2025-11-25T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/25\/marc-elias-capitulating-to-trump-isnt-strategy-its-surrender\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:15:58","slug":"marc-elias-capitulating-to-trump-isnt-strategy-its-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/11\/25\/marc-elias-capitulating-to-trump-isnt-strategy-its-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn\u2019t Strategy \u2014 It\u2019s Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attacks that Donald Trump has leveled against me and others are related to his own pathological need to attack people who stand up to him and who fight for free and fair elections and for democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t recommend that people try to get themselves in his crosshairs, but I would certainly say that anyone who finds themselves in those crosshairs should be standing up and speaking out, and not cutting deals or capitulating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Marc Elias<\/a>, chair of election litigation boutique Elias Law Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning attacks made against him by Donald Trump for his work opposing the administration\u2019s policies. Elias said his firm has seen a \u201cmassive surge\u201d in redistricting litigation and voting rights litigation in general \u201cbecause of the attacks on voting coming from this administration, particularly the fact that the Department of Justice is now not only not defending voting rights but is actually now suing to try to make voting harder.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn\u2019t Strategy \u2014 It\u2019s Surrender<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The attacks that Donald Trump has leveled against me and others are related to his own pathological need to attack people who stand up to him and who fight for free and fair elections and for democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t recommend that people try to get themselves in his crosshairs, but I would certainly say that anyone who finds themselves in those crosshairs should be standing up and speaking out, and not cutting deals or capitulating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Marc Elias<\/a>, chair of election litigation boutique Elias Law Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning attacks made against him by Donald Trump for his work opposing the administration\u2019s policies. Elias said his firm has seen a \u201cmassive surge\u201d in redistricting litigation and voting rights litigation in general \u201cbecause of the attacks on voting coming from this administration, particularly the fact that the Department of Justice is now not only not defending voting rights but is actually now suing to try to make voting harder.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Marc Elias: Capitulating To Trump Isn\u2019t Strategy \u2014 It\u2019s Surrender<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The attacks that Donald Trump has leveled against me and others are related to his own pathological need to attack people who stand up to him and who fight for free and fair elections and for democracy. I wouldn\u2019t recommend that people try to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":137601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Staci-Zaretsky-oFYGt0.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}