What’s next, MSNBC? Will you bring in Michael Avenatti, on a Zoom from his federal prison cell, as your expert on lawyer-client ethics?
The question arises because, of all the 330 million people in the United States, Saturdays’ edition of MSNBC’s The Weekend chose Marc Elias to attack Pam Bondi — Trump’s AG nominee — as a 2020 “election denier,” and someone who had suggested the existence of “fake ballots.”
This is the same Marc Elias who is fresh from his failure to steal the Pennsylvania senatorial election for his client, Democrat Bob Casey. As the National Review described it, “Casey’s strategy — spearheaded by his counsel, Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias — has turned to seeking to count illegal ballots.”
In service of Elias’s larcenous strategy, three counties counted ballots that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had ruled to be illegal….
