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Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) [1] is an American elections attorney for the Democratic Party. [2] He founded Democracy Docket , a website focused on voting rights and election litigation in the United States, in 2020, and he left his position as a partner at Perkins Coie to start the Elias Law Group in 2021. [ 3 ]
Democracy Docket is a voting rights and media platform that tracks election litigation. It has been described as liberal-leaning [1] and progressive. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 2020 by Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias and is published by Democracy Docket, LLC.
Elias Law Group was founded on September 2, 2021 with 15 partners and 50 total lawyers. [5] On October 4, 2022, Elias Law Group partner Abha Khanna argued on behalf of the Caster respondents in Allen v. Milligan, a landmark United States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA).
Marc Elias, founder of the eponymous law firm, has been a longstanding figure in Democratic politics. He has served as the general counsel for both John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and was also ...
DNC Parts Ways with Top Election Lawyer Marc Elias. Jeff Zymeri. April 12, 2023 at 9:51 AM.
The New York Times revealed that earlier in 2017, "Mr. Elias had denied that he had possessed the dossier before the election." [ 91 ] [ 47 ] The Clinton campaign did not know about Steele or that he was sharing his findings with the FBI, and "one top Clinton campaign official" told Jane Mayer that "If I'd known the F.B.I. was investigating ...
On January 30, 2020, Page filed another defamation lawsuit (Case: 1:20-cv-00671) against the DNC and Perkins Coie, naming Marc Elias and Michael Sussmann as defendants. [50] The suit was dismissed. [51] Page then appealed the lower court's dismissal to the United States Supreme Court (Case No. 20-2781). In January 2022, the Supreme Court ...
Sussmann's attorneys have denied he was representing the Clinton campaign. Perkins Coie represented the Clinton presidential campaign, and one of its partners, Marc Elias, commissioned Fusion GPS to conduct opposition research on Trump, which led to the production of the controversial Steele dossier. Sussmann, a former federal prosecutor ...