RealClear Policy By Stewart Whitson 10/15/2021
A herd of frivolous lawsuits is stampeding across Texas.
These lawsuits are meritless and attempt to create division in a state known for standing together — and Texans should stand together in support of SB 1.
It’s no wonder that so many of these lawsuits have been popping up all over the country. Suing states that pass commonsense election integrity laws is a lucrative business for lawyers like Marc Elias, one of the attorneys leading this attack against Texas.
Since March 2021, Elias has filed several similar lawsuits — all unsuccessful — across the country. Elias was the former General Counsel to Hillary Clinton, and this past spring, the Fifth Circuit sanctioned him for violating his “duty of candor to the court” in another case involving Texas election law.
He’s been back in the news given his ties to former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who was indicted last week for providing false statements to investigators examining Sussman’s alleged effort to push the false Russia collusion claim during the 2016 presidential election cycle.
Given this background, it’s difficult to take seriously the outrageous and reckless claims made against SB 1, but with media and political pundits echoing and amplifying these claims as if they were established fact, an alternative perspective is needed.
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