by Frank Holmes, reporter
Democrats are constantly warning that Republicans are about to steal an election—but watch what they do, not what they say.
One of the most infamous lawyers in the efforts is Marc Elias, who acted as Hillary Clinton’s attorney during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Elias has been around for a while — and at the time, he headed up the Perkins Coie law firm, the group that paid Christopher Steele for the phony “Russian dossier” that said Donald Trump hired prostitutes, among other sordid allegations.
Elias has warned for years that Republicans will try to silence you by “gerrymandering” — redrawing congressional districts to favor one’s own party.
“Republicans gerrymander like this because they do not want free and fair elections,” he once tweeted. “We fight in court to ensure that our democracy still has them.”
Billionaire liberal donor George Soros funded Elias’ lawsuits against voter ID laws and — after Hillary lost the election — Soros gave more than $9 million to the super PAC Priorities USA, which then hired Elias.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1461523732690882563
Now Elias has moved on. He founded his own law firm, the Elias Law Group, and set up a new legal fund called the Democracy Docket Legal Fund — which is raking in money from a secretive group called the Arabella Advisors, which reportedly doesn’t tell anybody where its money is coming from.
“All of this together means that as Arabella Advisors’ dark money attorney, Mr. Elias will have access to nearly unlimited funding to file lawsuits across the country,” Americans for Public Trust Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland told Fox News.
Elias has also made a cool $1 million from the Democratic Party and its allies within three months for helping it do one thing: gerrymander districts.
Every 10 years, the Census shows how many people have moved into or out of a state—which determines the number of congressional seats the state has. State legislatures redraw congressional maps after every census, with the party in power usually favoring itself a little… or a lot.
Elias says this is wrong, that Republicans are “disenfranchising” Democrats by drawing maps that favor the GOP.
But Elias is not only helping the Democrats draw the lines in your congressional district so that Republican voters don’t matter, but he’s one of the most aggressive practitioners of the art.
Take this report out of New York: “Dem leaders in Albany are set to release maps in the next 72 hours, but there’s still tension between Marc Elias/Sean Patrick Maloney – who are pushing for a hyper-aggressive 23D-3R gerrymander – and Upstate Dem incumbents who’d like more minor changes to their districts.”
Got that? Elias and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D.-N.Y. (who is the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) were pushing a map where New York’s Republicans would only have three seats in the House. That gives Democrats about 80 percent of the seats in the state, even though they win only about 62 percent of the vote. What’s more, much of that 62 percent is clustered in New York City.
Not only is the DCCC — which sues red states for their electoral maps — paying him to stack the deck in their favor, but Elias’ law firm got a $162,797 donation from another New York Democrat: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
NEW: Dem leaders in Albany are set to release maps in the next 72 hours, but there's still tension between Marc Elias/Sean Patrick Maloney – who are pushing for a hyper-aggressive 23D-3R gerrymander – and Upstate Dem incumbents who'd like more minor changes to their districts.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 28, 2022
Hypocrisy much?
The DCCC and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee reportedly each gave Elias’ legal eagles more than $400,000 each… and they’re just leading the pack.
“The firm received another $40,000 collectively from Priorities USA Action, the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC, George Soros’s Democracy PAC, and former attorney general Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee. The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC founded by former Republican operatives, paid Elias Law Group $45,288,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Out of one side of their mouth, Democrats are accusing Republicans of drawing partisan voting maps to “disenfranchise” voters. Out of the other side, they seem to be telling Marc Elias to push for the most radical revision of electoral lines he can come up with.
And Elias, it seems, is grabbing cash with both hands.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”