Superlawyer Marc Elias Throws Even More Shade on Democratic Party Brand

 The Democratic Party is heavily stocked with brilliant minds: strategist James Carville, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Paul Weiss law firm chair Brad Karp and head of legal at Uber Tony West. Yet, no one has been able to halt the meltdown of the Democratic brand since conservatives knocked the stuffings out of progressives in the 2024 general election.

Now, things have worsened. 

In a story broken by Abovethelaw, the world finds out that a superlawyer embedded in the Democratic Party - Marc Elias - has done dirty the employees at the law firm he had founded. That is, Elias Law Group. The New York Post reports:

"The Elias Law Group’s new policy, which drew an internal protest letter from 42 subordinates, prevents employees from suing and includes a class-action waiver and non-disclosure agreement ..."

That is considered verboten in general. So unfair to employees. It's a total abomination in a law firm. Watchers wonder if that law firm has something to hide.

On the website the firm describes itself, just as it is: 

" ... a mission-driven firm committed to help Democrats win, citizens vote, and progressives make change."

Elias first hit the big time in headlines when, as the Post notes, he was part of:

"Hillary Clinton’s procurement of a dossier full of salacious gossip about then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016"

Progressives in general and more specifically the Democratic Party have been positioned and packaged as anachronisms. Piled on top of that right now seems to be a sleazy layer of bullying legal tactics by a law firm with its employees. So this is the core of the Democratic Party? Does that manifest rot from within?

Shrewd Democrats should take out a blank sheet of paper and begin re-configuring that once powerhouse in politics. Meanwhile there's a flight of members to registering Independent.

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Elias Law Group is a mission-driven firm committed to helping Democrats win, citizens vote, and progressives make change.

Elias made headlines when, as the Post notes, he was associated with:

Hillary Clinton’s procurement of a dossier full of salacious gossip about then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 


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