Free and fair elections. If our elections are so pristinely pure...BOTH sides have invested in thousands of lawyers.
Our elections are no longer all about the ballot box. They are HEAVILY about the courts. Hanging chads led to this. It's just gotten worse. We no longer actually pull the levers we once did as citizens.
Four years ago, Joe Biden assembled hundreds of lawyers to work with his presidential campaign, which took an unusual detour through the courts when rival Donald Trump and his allies brought dozens of lawsuits making unsupported claims of election fraud.
Bracing for a flurry of postelection lawsuits to cap what has already been a fiercely litigated presidential contest, Kamala Harris’s campaign has expanded the Democratic legal team considerably, spending the better part of a year trying to anticipate any legal curveball that could arise in the crucial days before—and after—voters go to the polls..........
More than 400 lawyers have been writing thousands of pages of draft legal pleadings and memos that could be deployed quickly in fast-moving litigation. A larger network of about 10,000 lawyers is on tap to be on the ground and supporting voter protection at polling places across the U.S. Senior advisers have held weekly brainstorming sessions that in effect work like legal game theory, with top lawyers sketching out strategies for addressing a host of hypothetical scenarios that could arise in legal combat over the election results.
The Democratic National Committee has spent more than $22 million on lawyers in this election cycle as of this summer, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of the most recent federal campaign finance records. At the top of the expense list are national firms including Covington, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Munger, Tolles & Olson.
There has been plenty of litigation already. Republicans, who also have mobilized thousands of lawyers, have been the driving force for much of it, filing or supporting lawsuits contesting a range of voting procedures. Claire Zunk, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman, said the party is involved in more than 130 lawsuits in 26 states to protect election integrity, including to ensure that voter rolls are accurate and ineligible people, including noncitizens, don’t vote.