Behind a new slate of GOP lawsuits aimed at suppressing voters in electoral battleground states is a cadre of lawyers tied to Leonard Leo — the judicial activist widely credited with engineering the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.
On August 8, the Republican National Committee filed a last-ditch legal challenge in Arizona, asking the United States Supreme Court to remove forty thousand people from the state’s voter rolls by Thursday, the deadline for some counties to print ballots. The case could tip the election results in a critical swing state that President Joe Biden won in 2020 by less than eleven thousand votes.
The lawyer leading Republicans’ case is Tyler Green, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, a small but highly influential conservative law firm that has received millions from a Leo-linked nonprofit. He is also the administrative trustee of a dark-money slush fund run by Leo that in 2022 received a record-breaking $1.6 billion donation from an elusive billionaire.
Green and other Consovoy McCarthy attorneys are also spearheading legal attacks on voting rights in three other battleground states: Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada. Another dark-money group tied to Leo has filed briefs in support of the Republicans’ cases in Arizona and Georgia.
Leo and his political apparatus have exerted influence by installing conservative judges, then spearheading cases before those judges that have the potential to skew the country’s laws in their favor. It’s why Leo is credited with helping to overturn Roe v. Wade — and now his operation appears to be using the same playbook to control swing-state ballot boxes, with the potential to tip the scales this November.
“Obviously, Consovoy McCarthy is…
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Auteur: Katya Schwenk
