Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped a controversial Democratic elections lawyer, with whom the Democratic National Committee cut ties just last year and who was laughed out of court in 2022 for what a federal judge described as a “Hail Mary” scheme to impose Democrat-led gerrymandering on New York State, to serve on her campaign […]
Vice President Kamala Harris has tapped a controversial Democratic elections lawyer, with whom the Democratic National Committee cut ties just last year and who was laughed out of court in 2022 for what a federal judge described as a “Hail Mary” scheme to impose Democrat-led gerrymandering on New York State, to serve on her campaign legal team.
The lawyer, Marc Elias, will assist with any ballot recounts that may emerge from the November election, the New York Times reported over the weekend—a job that Elias described as working to “defend democracy.” Elias, who has represented controversial clients such as disgraced outgoing senator Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), said that he is “thrilled and honored” to join the campaign and committed to seeing Harris “sworn in on January 20 as the next president of the United States.”
But Elias’s controversial history could raise questions about how exactly he plans to help Harris win. While Democrats hail Elias as a hero for his bare-knuckle tactics, Republicans have accused him of using a seemingly bottomless bag of dirty tricks to win elections.
