Marc Elias, the Clinton team’s general counsel, announced Clinton’s campaign would participate in Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s recount effort in Wisconsin, on Saturday. Elias is a senior lawyer at the Perkins Coie law firm, which also represents Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
Elias also offered his services to the Clinton campaign to participate if Stein decides to pursue recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
In July, the New York Times reported Soros had pledged $5 million for a legal fight led by Elias against “restrictive voting laws enacted in recent years by Republican-controlled state governments”.
The Times further reported on Elias’ Soros-financed efforts to open federal lawsuits before that year’s midterm election and in advance of the 2016 US election campaign.
Elias declined to comment on Friday about the funding of the lawsuits when contacted by Breitbart.
In August, the Washington Post spotlighted the Soros-funded legal work of Elias in a profile titled, “The crusade of a Democratic superlawyer with multimillion-dollar backing.” The newspaper described Elias as the “go-to lawyer for Democrats in recount fights and redistricting battles.”
The Post reported on the Soros link:
With a multimillion-dollar commitment from liberal mega-donor George Soros, Elias is challenging laws that, he argues, diminish the impact of important Democratic Party constituencies of African Americans, Latinos and young people.
Soros’ direct involvement in the recount efforts is further highlighted by a New York Magazine article discussing the National Voting Rights Institute (NVRI) receiving funding from Soros’s Open Society Institute.
The NRVI is also funded by the Soros-funded Tides Foundation, and the Joyce Foundation, which has partnered with the Open Society Foundations on numerous projects.
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Soros is dying. This is his last song.
He wants to go as a flea-bitten dog.
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