All posts tagged "Cleta Mitchell"

A federal election official entertained a pitch from a group tied to President Donald Trump to discredit public comments on making voters prove citizenship.

According to a Wednesday article by Democracy Docket, emails showed that Christy McCormick, a former Republican vice chair of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, kept in regular contact with leaders of the Election Integrity Network during the agency's public comment period on the proof-of-citizenship proposal.

The Election Integrity Network is a conservative group founded by Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer and longtime Trump ally. The legal group Democracy Forward obtained the emails between McCormick and leaders of Mitchell's group....

A prominent MAGA lawyer bankrolled an election denier now working inside the Trump administration, according to tax filings.

According to reporting by Democracy Docket, a dark money fund run by election denier and anti-voting attorney Cleta Mitchell granted just over $72,000 in the last fiscal year to Heather Honey. Democracy Docket described Honey as an "election conspiracy theorist" hired by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oversee election integrity.

Mitchell granted the money through her Foundation for Accountability, Integrity and Research in Elections Fund. Honey accepted the money through her company, Verity Vote, for consulting and research services, according to tax filings reviewed by Democracy Docket....

A legal expert sounded the alarm on a pair of lawyers who he fears have a plot in mind for upcoming elections.

During an episode of Legal AF, Michael Popok warned that the Trump administration is maneuvering to "spring on the American people" in upcoming elections. While Popok said he doesn't know what the administration has in mind, he warned about the "crazies that are inside the White House," including Kurt Olsen.

"Kurt Olsen, a failed lawyer sanctioned twice by the Arizona courts for bringing up false information to the courts related to Kari Lake's attempted bid for governorship," Popok said. "He was so nuts that even team crazy, which was the name for [Rudy] Giuliani's group during the first Trump administration, wouldn't have Kurt Olsen around."...