President Joe Biden's team has reportedly split from working with the scandal-plagued Marc Elias, the top Democratic lawyer who helped push the Steele dossier that falsely sought to link former President Donald Trump to Russia.
The split was due to Biden's team having differences in opinion with Elias when it comes to his aggressive legal strategies, as well as tensions, including between the superlawyer and Bob Bauer, Biden's head personal attorney, Axios reported. Details concerning the divorce come months after multiple reports on the Democratic National Committee cutting ties with Elias, who represented it since 2009.
The Biden administration reportedly soured on Elias over him not consulting the White House or DNC prior to filing election and voting rights lawsuits, and government officials sometimes only learned about lawsuits once he announced them on MSNBC or social media. The rift is a window into setbacks of late linked to Elias, who was general counsel for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and commissioned the Trump-Russia dossier.
Elias was also sanctioned in 2021 by a Texas appeals court in connection to"misleading" statements of his over an election dispute. In April 2023, Backer's group accused the lawyer's firm and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in an FEC complaint of"apparent civil violations" over election law. However, Elias Law Group recently touted how it scored a win in Moore v.
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