We The People need to engage, yada, yada, yada.
GOP Election Misinformation Scheme Violates Federal Law: Voting Rights AttorneyMSNBC - Jun 3, 2021
Marc Elias, voting rights attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about
why Americans can’t rely on the courts to defend voting rights against Republican infringement indefinitely,
and why he thinks the Arizona election misinformation operation is violating federal law.
The Complicated Legacy of the 19th Amendment By Democracy Dockethttps://www.democracydocket.com
Today there are enshrined constitutional protections mandating that the right to vote not be abridged due to gender, race, age, religion or disability. But in practice, women of color still face massive inequities and institutional racism that prevents them from making their voices heard.
‘Democracy Is at Stake’ Claudia Dreifus, an interview with Marc Eliashttps://www.nybooks.com/daily/2021/06/01/democracy-is-at-stake-an-interview-with-marc-elias/
The expert elections lawyer knocked down scores of pro-Trump lawsuits challenging the 2020 results. Now, he says, we’re in a struggle to save the republic.
June 1, 2021
Now if only we could get American citizens to care.
I think it is about time somebody goes to jail for a long time for sedition or treason.
Perhaps that’ll stop this charade
Marc Elias racks up another big win for democracy, and the mail in Ballot
Aug 5, 2024 Democracy Watch with Marc Elias
Democracy Watch episode 163: Marc Elias discusses Republicans losing a major court case-- and its implications for the 2024 election.
. . . The Republican National Committee (RNC) promptly appealed its lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s mail-in ballot receipt deadline just a few days after a Republican-appointed federal judge dismissed the challenge as meritless.
The case is now before the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — the most conservative federal appeals court in the country.
In a ruling handed down last Sunday, George W. Bush-appointed Judge Louis Guirola upheld a Mississippi election law that allows for the counting of mail-in ballots up to five days after an election so long as they are postmarked on or before Election Day.
Guirola concluded that the state’s post-election ballot receipt deadline comports with federal law and the U.S. Constitution, rejecting the RNC’s argument that the law effectively extends Election Day and leads to “valid ballots” being diluted by allegedly “illegitimate” ones. …