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The attacks that Donald Trump has leveled against me and others are related to his own pathological need to attack people who stand up to him and who fight for free and fair elections and for democracy.
I wouldn’t recommend that people try to get themselves in his crosshairs, but I would certainly say that anyone who finds themselves in those crosshairs should be standing up and speaking out, and not cutting deals or capitulating.
— Marc Elias, chair of election litigation boutique Elias Law Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal, concerning attacks made against him by Donald Trump for his work opposing the administration’s policies. Elias said his firm has seen a “massive surge” in redistricting litigation and voting rights litigation in general “because of the attacks on voting coming from this administration, particularly the fact that the Department of Justice is now not only not defending voting rights but is actually now suing to try to make voting harder.”
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