In 2021, he left his position as a partner at Perkins Coie to start the Elias Law Group. Elias served as general counsel for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign.
Marc Elias the Democratic National Committee’s election lawyer and legal adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, filed more than 50 lawsuits around the country challenging state election laws in advance of the 2020 presidential election. In a 2018 Tweet, President Donald Trump referred to Elias as the Democrats’ “best Election stealing lawyer.”
A native of New York, Marc Elias is an American attorney who is a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice. He worked in the same role for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Elias is the general counsel for Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign.
Elias, who was sanctioned for “lack of candor” in a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, founded the election law firm Elias Law Group in August after leaving the Perkins Coie law firm.
A native of New York, Marc Elias is an American attorney who is a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP and head of its Political Law practice. He worked in the same role for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Senate. For the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016 campaign of Hillary Clinton, Elias was the attorney of record.
Elias graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College in 1990. Later in 1993, he received both a master’s degree in political science from Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law.
Elias was born on February 1, 1969, in New York. He is 52 years old as of 2021.
In April 2015 Hillary Clinton engaged Elias as attorney of record for her 2016 presidential campaign.
Despite being in the limelight for a very long time, Elias has been very private about his personal life. He has never revealed if he is married or not. He has kept details of his family out of the public.
Elias helped turn a few Democrats who appeared to have lost on election night into winners.
Ellias is the founder of Democracy Docket, a website devoted to election litigation.
In 2020, Elias led lawsuits around the country to change state laws to allow for expanding mail-in and absentee voting, and to allow the controversial practice of ballot harvesting, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The lawyer’s reputation may have been the reason a spokesperson for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe suggested the campaign “try to kill” a Fox News story that the campaign paid $53,000 to hire Elias, said Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
The 5th Circuit panel also said the lawyers who filed the motion, “without directly saying so, sought reconsideration of their already denied motion.”
On election night, Republican Mark Obenshain led Herring by 1,000 votes out of 2.2 million cast. However, a week later, local election boards produced results putting Herring ahead by 164 votes statewide. The state certified the results weeks later, on Nov. 25.
Mark Elias’ involvement in contested elections spans the improbable Senate victory of comedian Al Franken in 2008 to litigation both before and after the 2020 election. Pictured: Elias outside the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix on Aug. 3, 2016, after a hearing on his lawsuit over Arizona voting law. (Photo: David Jolkovski/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
Marc Elias – The Democrat Who Singlehandedly Destroyed American Democracy. Marc Elias’s partisan legal career may appear to glitter like gold but even a cursory examination reveals his legal ethics are, at best, dubious. In fact, Elias likely has done irreparable harm to the United States of America. Who is this guy?
So, it is apparent that from the get-go, Elias saw the COVID-19 situation as his vehicle of choice for achieving the goal of voting by mail, at least in what are considered swing states.
Signature matching laws need to be reformed to protect voters.
In fact, Elias likely has done irreparable harm to the United States of America.
In response to a question, Elias stated he “did not direct” Steele to the specific media outlets he was sent to but he “was aware of it.”
Marc Elias the Democratic National Committee’s election lawyer and legal adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, filed more than 50 lawsuits around the country challenging state election laws in advance of the 2020 presidential election.
Though most of the state laws he challenged have been on the books for years, Elias went full steam ahead asking courts to overrule state election laws, force states to count ballots that came in after Election Day, or force states to have unattended ballot collection boxes.
In Pennsylvania, Elias filed suit to force county boards of elections to accept late ballots that don’t arrive for a full week after the election. He also sued to force officials to count late ballots without a postmark to prove they were cast by Election Day. Elias also sued to prevent county boards of elections from disqualifying ballots if the signatures don’t match those on file , and to prevent rejection of ballots that aren’t in the security envelope, and only inside of one envelope.
The goal of Elias was to “lower the bar a little bit in terms of what the requirements are ,” lawyer Fritz Knaak told freelance journalist Margaret Menge in an October article for InsideSources.
Elias was also a key player in the Russia collusion hoax. As the attorney for both the DNC and Clinton campaign, he helped bankroll research by Fusion GPS that created the bogus “Steele dossier” used by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign during the 2016 race.