Democrats Have Assembled an Army of Lawyers in Final Weeks of 2024 Election
“It’s really just making sure we have systems in place—which we do—to monitor what Republicans are doing everywhere”
A Trump landslide would make all of the moot, so that’s what people on the right should hope happens.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Democrats Ready Thousands of Lawyers for Final Days of Race
Four years ago, Joe Biden assembled hundreds of lawyers to work with his presidential campaign, which took an unusual detour through the courts when rival Donald Trump and his allies brought dozens of lawsuits making unsupported claims of election fraud.
Bracing for a flurry of postelection lawsuits to cap what has already been a fiercely litigated presidential contest, Kamala Harris’s campaign has expanded the Democratic legal team considerably, spending the better part of a year trying to anticipate any legal curveball that could arise in the crucial days before—and after—voters go to the polls.
“It’s really just making sure we have systems in place—which we do—to monitor what Republicans are doing everywhere,” said Dana Remus, a former Biden White House counsel who is leading the Harris legal operation. “As soon as they file a case, as soon as they start saying election results can’t be trusted, we are prepared to respond.”
Remus, a partner at Covington & Burling, is a Yale Law graduate with a diverse résumé, including a clerkship to conservative Justice Samuel Alito. Her inner circle includes Bob Bauer, a personal lawyer to Biden and White House counsel to former President Barack Obama who also teaches law at New York University. They have assigned priority to better coordination with local lawyers who are steeped in the minutiae of state election laws and how to best navigate their hometown courts. A series of teams, each focused on a specific battleground or priority state, have been running for the past year, with local attorneys working with a designated partner at one of a handful of large, national law firms that are helping to guide strategy.
More than 400 lawyers have been writing thousands of pages of draft legal pleadings and memos that could be deployed quickly in fast-moving litigation. A larger network of about 10,000 lawyers is on tap to be on the ground and supporting voter protection at polling places across the U.S. Senior advisers have held weekly brainstorming sessions that in effect work like legal game theory, with top lawyers sketching out strategies for addressing a host of hypothetical scenarios that could arise in legal combat over the election results.
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God help America.
I’d be severely disappointed if the commies(leftists, dims, etc.) didn’t have an army of well-paid legal sharks at the ready for this election. And all the paperwork trappings of that “profession” made up ahead of any possible objection to the outcome of this election. Just sayin’.
The issue will probably not be from the Trump campaign saying that the election wasn’t fair. I fully expect him to win in a landslide so the Harris people will start the legal challenges in each of the swing states.
“fast-moving litigation” is an oxymoron.
Rs will be using google maps to find an election lawyer by Nov 14th? Seriously this is what happens when one side has no dedicated institution.
“Democrats Have Assembled an Army of Lawyers”
“He has … sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”