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Marc E. Elias

@marceelias

Founder @democracydocket. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.

 Washington, DC
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Joined March 2009
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Join me for an urgent livestream to discuss Donald Trump's latest escalating attacks on free and fair elections. 6:30pm ET. youtube.com/live/D5syo39PlGQ
BREAKING: Trump PANICS as Election Schemes Collapse

BREAKING: Trump PANICS as Election Schemes Collapse

Trump and his election-meddling cadre are being dealt defeat after ...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court ORDERS DOJ and DHS to identify, by noon tomorrow, every state they’ve sent demands to remove alleged non-citizens from the rolls, withhold mail ballots, or segregate ballots. A victory for DSCC, DCCC, DGA and the Nevada Democratic Party!
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NEW: My latest is available to all. We took down the Democracy Docket paywall this week, so we’re sharing it with everyone. Read and share. democracydocket.com/opinion/…
Make no mistake about what the DOJ is doing

Make no mistake about what the DOJ is doing

The Department of Justice keeps filing lawsuits to undermine our elections. The pro-democracy movement keeps fighting back. So far, we are winning, and the DOJ is losing. But make no mistake: this is...

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A top official has denied that DOJ’s plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors is any different from its practices during past races — despite the Trump administration currently bringing unprecedented and baseless lawsuits to intimidate election officials. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
As DOJ interferes in elections, official swears 1,000-monitor plan is standard

As DOJ interferes in elections, official swears 1,000-monitor plan is standard

The DOJ’s plans to send a record number of monitors in this year’s general election have worried election officials and civil rights groups.

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I made the decision to have Democracy Docket take down its paywall through Election Day. Read it, enjoy it, share it -- all for free. If you want to support this effort, here is how: hubs.ly/Q04CxxVy0
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Donald Trump and his cronies hate me because I fight win. When they attack me, I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.
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NEW: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request for a temporary restraining order that would have forced California to set aside and not count ballots from 20,000 people the Department of Justice alleges may be noncitizens. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Judge rejects DOJ demand that California set aside 20,000 ballots

Judge rejects DOJ demand that California set aside 20,000 ballots

“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and...

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🚨VICTORY! California Federal Court REJECTS DOJ’s motion for a TRO to set aside ballots. A BIG win for Elias Law Group and our clients Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network and Mi Familia en Acción. Another defeat for Trump. democracydocket.com/cases/ca…
🚨 USA v. California et al

🚨 USA v. California et al

Learn more here.

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Democracy is under attack and legacy media is failing us. If you want to help support and grow pro-democracy media that doesn't do Trump's bidding, join Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4wbp1va
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🚨BREAKING: Washington election officials announced a preliminary review of a federal list of more than 400 alleged noncitizen voters has already uncovered U.S. citizens, inactive voters and people who are not currently registered. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Washington state finds U.S. citizens on DOJ’s noncitizen voter list, rejects demand to set aside...

Washington state finds U.S. citizens on DOJ’s noncitizen voter list, rejects demand to set aside...

Secretary Hobbs said federal officials provided no explanation of how the data was collected, identified no underlying sources and supplied no supporting documentation.

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🚨BREAKING: A Texas county Republican Party is asking a federal court to stop certification of the state’s upcoming election results unless officials first hand count every paper ballot in the state. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Texas county Republicans sue to block election certification unless every ballot is hand counted

Texas county Republicans sue to block election certification unless every ballot is hand counted

The extraordinary request rests on speculative claims about artificial intelligence, foreign-made voting machine components and the possibility of undetected hacking.

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🚨BREAKING: the DHS process described by a whistleblower strongly indicates that the Trump administration has lists — with all the flaws the whistleblower described — on several states, and potentially all states. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
California won’t be last state to face DOJ ‘noncitizen voter’ challenges, documents suggest

California won’t be last state to face DOJ ‘noncitizen voter’ challenges, documents suggest 

A list of alleged noncitizens at the center of the DOJ's California lawsuit appears to stem from a flawed process recently disclosed by a federal whistleblower.

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Trump and his enablers want to distract you. They don't want you to focus on their efforts to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat. Read this and share. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Report: Trump administration subpoenas election officials in at least 13 states for voter records

Report: Trump administration subpoenas election officials in at least 13 states for voter records

The news is the latest major escalation in the administration’s dangerous campaign to interfere with midterm voting and intimidate election officials and voters.

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Trump and his enablers want to distract you. They don't want you to focus on their efforts to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat. Read this and share. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Report: Trump administration subpoenas election officials in at least 13 states for voter records

Report: Trump administration subpoenas election officials in at least 13 states for voter records

The news is the latest major escalation in the administration’s dangerous campaign to interfere with midterm voting and intimidate election officials and voters.

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NEW EPISODE: With less than a week before the midterm election, I've been inundated with questions about what I am most worried about. In this episode I outline my top five concerns, from most immediate to most dire, and what we can do to fight back. youtube.com/watch?v=GzqRBkVM…
5 Threats to the Midterms You Need to Know Before Tuesday

5 Threats to the Midterms You Need to Know Before Tuesday

With less than a week before the final midterm election ballots are...

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For the next week, the Democracy Docket paywall is down. Every analysis I write and all premium reporting, free to read in full in your inbox. The legal fights move fastest in an election’s final week. Read it. Share it. Join the fight: hubs.ly/Q04CxxVy0
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🚨BREAKING: Nearly 2,900 voters in one Georgia county have yet to receive the absentee ballots they recently applied for and are blaming their local officials’ hiring of an out-of-town vendor for the delays, they charge in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Nearly 3,000 voters in key Georgia county haven’t received mail ballots yet, dangerously close to...

Nearly 3,000 voters in key Georgia county haven’t received mail ballots yet, dangerously close to...

Cobb County voters want a judge to order their election board to overnight absentee ballots to them to make the Nov. 3 deadline.

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A federal judge demanded to know the precedent for sequestering ballots as he heard arguments on the Trump administration’s emergency bid to force the state to set aside and not tabulate ballots from 20,000 people. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
North Carolina ballot rejection rate up to 6% with time to fix errors running out

North Carolina ballot rejection rate up to 6% with time to fix errors running out

With Nov. 3 less than a week away, time is running out. Voters can track the status of their mail ballot with the state’s BallotTrax site, but it’s also up to election officials and the U.S. Postal...

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I've never had a security clearance. My nonexistent clearance was never pulled. I never complained.
Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) profile pictureBrian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
@drawandstrikeOct 27
How many of you knew that Perkins Coie’s offices had a SCIF inside of it? Why did Marc Elias and all the other Washington DC power players complain very loudly when their security clearances began to be yanked very early in the new Trump administration?
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NEW: A federal judge expedited Democrats’ effort to dismiss the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) preemptive legal challenge to Alaska’s Senate election results. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Judge fast-tracks Democrats' bid to dismiss Trump’s Alaska lawsuit

Judge fast-tracks Democrats' bid to dismiss Trump’s Alaska lawsuit

The judge appeared deeply skeptical of the timing of the DOJ’s lawsuit.

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