The Post Alleges That Marc Elias Was the Go Between Connecting the Campaign to Fusion GPS & the Dossier Marc Elias. Citing anonymous people familiar with the situation, The Post exclusive reported that âMarc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
Obamaâs Campaign Paid $972,000 To Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS In 2016. According to the Washington Post, Fusion GPS was first retained by Perkins Coie on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clintonâs presidential campaign in April of 2016.
Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) is an American Democratic Party elections lawyer. 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.
In 2017, the Washington Post identified Elias and Perkins Coie as having hired the Fusion GPS opposition research firm on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Marc Elias, the general counsel for Hillary Clintonâs presidential campaign, and a top Democratic lawyer who has also worked with other top Democratic politicians for years, is accused of helping orchestrate funding from the campaign to the research firm Fusion GPS that helped pay for the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
Marc represented Senator Maria Cantwell in connection with her 2000 recount, Senator Harry Reid in connection with his 1998 recount, and served as a consultant to the Senate Rules Committee during its consideration of the 1996 Louisiana Senate election contest,â the bio says, adding, âMarc has represented numerous clients in public corruption and campaign finance matters before the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneyâs Offices and Offices of Independent Counsel. He has also represented clients before committees of both the House and Senate, as well as before federal agencies.â
According to his law firm bio, Elias has also played a role in election integrity issues. On Twitter, Elias describes himself as âa lawyer fighting to elect Democrats up and down the ballot, and protecting voting rights for all.â He has been involved in elections-related lawsuits, such as one intervening in a Nevada state recall.
Elias âvigorouslyâ denied his involvement in the anti-Trump dossier that sparked a slew of Trump/Russia claims, New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said on Twitter. Commenting on the Washington Post exclusive, Vogel wrote: âWhen I tried to report this story, Clinton campaign lawyer @marceelias pushed back vigorously, saying âYou (or your sources) are wrong.'â Maggie Haberman, of the New York Times, shared the Post bombshell story and wrote on Twitter, âFolks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.â
The lawyer implied that Trump Jr. was set up, although Fusion GPS says it didnât know about the meeting.
In the exclusive report, The Washington Post is reporting that the Hillary Clinton campaign â through its lawyer Elias â and the Democratic National Committee allegedly âhelped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossierâ against Trump. Trump has denied the allegations, and the firm behind the dossier, Fusion GPS, ...
The presidentâs son says he thought the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, was going to provide the Trump campaign with information damaging to Hillary Clinton, but instead she focused on the Magnitsky Act, which slaps Russians with sanctions for human rights abuse and deals with Russian adoption issues.
Fusion GPS, in turn, hired former British spy Christopher Steele, who fabricated sensational claims that helped lead to the FBI surveillance ...
Marc Elias, the Democratic lawyer behind many of the voting changes causing havoc in the 2020 presidential election, is also responsible for hiring Fusion GPS to compile the âRussia dossierâ to dig up dirt on Donald Trump in the 2016 race. Elias works for the Perkins Coie law firm in Washington, DC, and once represented Hillary Clintonâs ...
As Breitbart News has reported throughout the 2020 election, Elias often led Democrats in suing election authorities in battleground states to change their voting rules to expand vote-by-mail, extend deadlines, or relax rules to prevent fraud.
The New Republic praised Elias in September as âThe Man Who Is Determined to Stop Trump From Rigging the Election.â. The rest is history, as several key states failed to report results on Election Day, amid questions about mail-in ballots.
In related new, federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is refusing to allow the Department of Justice to drop the case against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, is also presiding in a case about the U.S. Postal Service and ballots.
In April 2020 , Breitbart News reported that Elias had demanded vote-by-mail across the nation, and less restrictive rules, in an article in The Atlantic â a publication known for its editorial hostility to Trump. Hillary Clinton tweeted her agreement:
Marc Erik Elias (born February 1, 1969) is an American attorney specializing in election law, voting rights and redistricting. He is a partner at Perkins Coie and head of the firm's political law practice. He served as general counsel for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign.
On March 12, 2021, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued sanctions on Marc Elias and other Perkins Coie attorneys for "redundant and misleading" motions related to a case in which Marc Elias and his legal team argued that the elimination of straight-ticket voting in Texas disproportionately affected minorities. In the ruling, the court stated that Elias and his team "did not notify the court that their latest motion to supplement the record filed on February 10, 2021 was nearly identical to the motion to supplement the record filed several months ago by the same attorneys, on September 29, 2020." Similarly, the court said that "this inexplicable failure to disclose the earlier denial of their motion violated their duty of candor to the court.â The court ordered the listed attorneys to pay double costs and " reasonable attorneyâs fees and court costs incurred by Appellant with respect to Appelleesâ duplicative February 10, 2021 motion." The cost of the latter is still to be determined by the court. The court also recommended, but not required, that the attorneys review the Court's rules of professional conduct and "complete one hour of Continuing Legal Education in the area of Ethics and Professionalism, specifically candor with the court."
In the ruling, the court stated that Elias and his team "did not notify the court that their latest motion to supplement the record filed on February 10, 2021 was nearly identical to the motion to supplement the record filed several months ago by the same attorneys, on September 29, 2020.".
Bethune-Hill Lawsuit filed on behalf of 12 individual Virginia voters challenging the Virginia House of Delegatesâ 2011 redistricting map on the basis that 12 House of Delegates districts were drawn as racial gerrymanders in violation of the Equal Protection Claus e of the 14th Amendment . The district court held that 11 of the House districts were unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
Elias has worked on voting rights and redistricting lawsuits in more than 25 states, including Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
On October 24, 2017 , Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from its client confidentiality obligation. Elias serves on the Board of Advisors of Let America Vote, an organization founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander that aims to end voter suppression.
Born to a Jewish family in New York City , Elias was raised in Suffern, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hamilton College in 1990. He then earned both a master's degree in political science from Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law.