Behind the Scenes
I received this email the other week about some of the work that was going on behind the scenes in this past year’s election.Fighting Lawyers with Lawyers Pays Off for GOP
Amid the inaugural celebrations in Washington, a quiet luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton stood out. The Republican National Lawyers Association may well have contributed as much as anyone to making sure it was George Bush, not John Kerry, who took the oath of office yesterday.
Democrats, backed up by trial lawyer muscle, fielded the biggest legal contingents in November's battleground states. But they clearly met their match in the RNLA. Democrats filed 65 separate lawsuits demanding everything from the counting if improperly cast provisional ballots to the blocking of GOP poll watchers. Yet state or federal judges ruled against them in every single contest, thanks to persuasive legal counterarguments by the RNLA.
At the RNLA lunch this week, former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who as a private lawyer argued George W. Bush's Florida recount case before the Supreme Court in 2000, told the group: "The strategy of delegitimizing election results didn't work in 2000 and it didn't work in 2004. Anyone who says lawyers don't make a difference in politics doesn't know what the people in this room did."
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