Mar 17th, 2021 5 min read
COMMENTARY BY
Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow
Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration. Elias represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and was responsible for the hiring of Fusion GPS. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Among the specific lawyers named in the March 11 order for “violat[ing] their duty of candor to the court” is Marc Elias.
Elias and the Democratic Party waited nearly three years to file a lawsuit claiming that eliminating straight-ticket voting was somehow unconstitutional.
Top Democratic Election Lawyers Sanctioned for ‘Misleading’ Conduct
A federal appeals court has sanctioned Marc Elias and other Democratic election attorneys from the Perkins Coie law firm for
“violat[ing] their duty of candor to the court.”
Pictured: Elias speaks with reporters in Minnesota on March 3, 2009, amid a court battle over a contested Senate race there. (Photo: Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune/Getty Images)
Commentary By
Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, and former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a member of the board of the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
A federal appeals court ordered sanctions against several prominent Democratic election attorneys for violating ethics rules in a case challenging Texas’s effort to end straight-ticket voting ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The post Federal Appellate Court Sanctions Democratic Election Attorney for Filing a ‘Redundant and Misleading’ Motion first appeared on Law & Crime.
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals imposed sanctions against Perkins Coie partner Marc Elias and other attorneys representing Democrats in a case where they challenged a Texas election law going into the 2020 elections.
The case centers on a state law barring straight ticket voting, a practice that had allowed voters to automatically vote for every member of a particular party who is on the ballot by marking a single box instead of voting for each one individually. On Feb. 10, Elias and other attorneys filed a motion to supplement the record in the case, without mentioning that they had already filed what the court called a nearly identical motion in September 2020 that had been denied.