Leonard Leo’s Plan to Suppress Voters in Swing-States
A cadre of lawyers tied to conservative activist Leonard Leo is spearheading a series of legal attacks on voting rights in critical swing states. The operation aims to suppress voters, with the potential to tip the scales during the election this fall.
A “Vote Here” sign outside a polling location in Tucson, Arizona. (Cassidy Araiza / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Behind a new slate of GOP lawsuits aimed at suppressing voters in electoral battleground states is a cadre of lawyers tied to Leonard Leo — the judicial activist widely credited with engineering the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.
On August 8, the Republican National Committee filed a last-ditch legal challenge in Arizona, asking the United States Supreme Court to remove forty thousand people from the state’s voter rolls by Thursday, the deadline for some counties to print ballots. The case could tip the election results in a critical swing state that President Joe Biden won in 2020 by less than eleven thousand votes.
The lawyer leading Republicans’ case is Tyler Green, a partner at Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, a small but highly influential conservative law firm that has received millions from a Leo-linked nonprofit. He is also the administrative trustee of a dark-money slush fund run by Leo that in 2022 received a record-breaking $1.6 billion donation from an elusive billionaire.
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