Left-wing Wisconsin judge was backed by same groups paying firm behind congressional map lawsuit

Washington examiner ^ | 2/6/24 | Gabe Kaminsky

[CFW]

A left-wing Wisconsin Supreme Court justice was endorsed on the campaign trail last year by activists that, around the same time, paid major sums to a Democratic law firm now pressing the court to order new congressional maps ahead of the 2024 election, records show.

Republican lawmakers demanded the recusal last week of Badger State justice Janet Protasiewicz from taking up a redistricting motion due to her criticism of Wisconsin’s “rigged” maps while running in 2023. That heavily scrutinized effort to overhaul Wisconsin elections is being led by Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias, whose influential Elias Law Group raked in more than $680,000 combined for “legal services” in 2023 from left-wing groups that, in turn, rallied to support Protasiewicz, according to Federal Election Commission filings.

That Protasiewicz was boosted in 2023 by EMILY’s List, End Citizens United, and Family Friendly Action PAC is likely to prompt further calls from the GOP for the justice to step away from the Elias Law Group’s motion, which seeks a new congressional map in time for the election this November. Protasiewicz waved away requests from conservatives last year for her to recuse from lawsuits in connection to the state’s GOP-drawn legislative maps, which the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled were unconstitutional in December 2023. Democrats have a 4-3 court majority.

[CFW]

The corruption in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election was massive. And the lawfare continues on with Elias in the thick of it.

[ComputerGuy]

Elias is a crafty individual who makes for a formidable opponent.

[Brian Griffin]

“her criticism of Wisconsin’s “rigged” maps while running in 2023”

I thought judges were not supposed to say how they would rule on a case when seeking employment. The bar associations make it so the Senate can’t get a straight answer out of prospective federal judges.

[Brian Griffin]

WIKI

Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) is an American Democratic Party elections lawyer. In 2020, he founded Democracy Docket, a website focused on voting rights and election litigation in the United States, and he left his position as a partner at Perkins Coie to start the Elias Law Group in 2021.

Elias served as general counsel for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign. In 2020 and 2021, on behalf of the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Elias oversaw the state-by-state response to lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Of the 64 cases, he won all but one minor case, which was later overturned in his favor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Elias

[Brian Griffin]

Elias asserted that “The Rosen trial confirmed one of the dirty little secrets of the campaign finance laws — they are so complicated that virtually no one in politics fully understands them.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Elias

There should be no campaign finance laws. Only general law such as wire or mail fraud should apply.

[bigbob]

WI Dems put everything they had into getting this bitch on the court. Nw watch them go hard left.

[Qwapisking]

superlawyer or superlawyer’s evil twin? You decide.

[Brian Griffin]

“raked in more than $680,000”

That’s probably less than Mitt’s relative cost the RNC.

Team Donkey is getting a great deal.

[Jacquerie]

Whenever you see the names Elias, Podesta or Lanny Davis, count on enormous sleaze.