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Marc Elias Goes to Bat for Swamp’s Lawsuit vs. Trump’s Buyout

An organization run by veteran Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias is representing federal unions in a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Trump administration’s buyout of federal employees.

U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, handed the group a short-term victory on Thursday, extending the Feb. 6 deadline to accept a Trump administration buyout to resign now and receive pay and benefits until the end of September. The extension stretched the deadline to Feb. 10, when another hearing is scheduled to examine the legality of the buyout offer.

Elias is the chairman of the board of Democracy Forward, which is representing two federal employee unions—the American Federation of Government Employees and the National Association of Government Employees—as well as two nonfederal unions, the American Federation of State, County and…

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