Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who has been filing and threatening lawsuits around the country accusing Republican-led legislatures of drawing grotesquely gerrymandered political maps, is facing charges of hypocrisy after he filed a legal motion last week in Maryland that would allow him to defend similarly gerrymandered maps approved by Democrats in that state.
Elias, a prominent gun-for-hire representing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, filed a motion on January 20 to intervene in a partisan gerrymandering case in Maryland. If the motion is granted, the DCCC would become a defendant in the case, which was filed in December by the nonpartisan Fair Maps Maryland.
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