Harris Staffs Up Legal Team To Battle GOP Challenges

The New York Times reports:

Amid threats of certification battles and mass voter challenges, Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has assembled an expansive senior legal team that will oversee hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers in a sprawling operation designed to be a bulwark against what Democrats expect to be an aggressive Republican effort to challenge voters, rules and, possibly, the results of the 2024 election.

The legal apparatus within the Harris campaign will oversee multiple aspects of the election program, including voter protection, recounts and general election litigation, and it is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to focus on potential recounts. The campaign will also lean on the top lawyers at three prominent law firms — Seth Waxman, Donald Verrilli and John Devaney — to handle litigation.

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Kamala Harris hires Marc Elias, via ⁦@NYTnickc⁩ https://t.co/sJNoIFYxSG via @NYTimes

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) August 17, 2024

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The Kamala Harris campaign now has a legal team TEN times larger than President Biden’s campaign in 2020.

Harris advisors expect the post-election legal landscape to be quite contentious.

With that mind, the campaign has also brought on @marceelias, one of the top… pic.twitter.com/STpA0VWRzH

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 17, 2024