The lawyer Marc Elias, who fights for voting rights and fair elections, says that Donald Trump’s election “radicalized” him. “I became a much more polarized person and a more polarizing lawyer.”
, the governor of Georgia, signed into law one of the nation’s most comprehensive voter-suppression bills, while sitting under a painting of a plantation.
Elias told me that Trump’s machinations before the 2020 election convinced him that the President was setting the stage to undermine the outcome. “Donald Trump was lying about the accuracy of elections in advance of the 2020 election, because he was acculturating his supporters and the media to what came after,” Elias said.
Elias is fifty-three, balding, with a round and resolute face. He grew up in a lower-middle-class, liberal-Democrat, Jewish household on Long Island. His father, who didn’t go to college, cobbled together a living, first as a teletype operator on Wall Street, and later at a car-rental agency in New Jersey; his mother stayed home with Elias and his older brother.
The opinion, which was opposed by conservatives who had hoped that these groups would be allowed to operate without F.E.C. oversight, has forever branded Elias as the man who created the super. “Basically, we clarified that you could pool these funds within a federal political committee, which, along with it, comes certain disclosure obligations,” he said.
When I asked Elias what those values meant in practice, he recounted a story from the firm’s first days: “One of my partners came to me and said that they wanted to bring in a particular client, a corporation, and I said I didn’t understand how it fit our criteria. And the partner said, ‘Well, but they’re neutral.’ And I said that therein lies the problem. In this work, there is no neutrality.”
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