Marc Elias Says His Firm Is Litigating 92 Election Cases in 42 States, Including Peltola's Fight Over Alaska's Certification
The Washington Examiner profiles the Democratic election lawyer's midterm docket: Alaska, mail ballots, Missouri's map and the DOJ's voter-roll suits. The firm has won most of them and billed the DNC over $2.4 million.
Democratic election attorney Marc Elias has a hand in dozens of midterm court fights, and the Washington Examiner says his firm's latest case is Mary Peltola's response to the Justice Department in Alaska.
The scale. According to Elias, the Elias Law Group is litigating 92 election-related cases across 42 states and Washington, D.C. Bloomberg reported that the firm is again a top litigator and adviser for the Democratic National Committee. Campaign finance records show the firm earned more than $2.4 million from the DNC between November 2024 and August 2026.
Alaska. Last week the firm moved to intervene for Peltola's campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to get the Justice Department's certification lawsuit dismissed. The DOJ wants a court to pause Alaska's certification if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses and the votes for independent Dan J. Sullivan, whom critics call "Decoy Dan," could have changed the result. "We will win this case, Mary will win this election, she will be certified and seated," Elias wrote on Bluesky. The Examiner says a New York Times report linked the firm to efforts by Peltola's campaign and senior Democratic operatives to recruit the same-name candidate. Peltola has said she "knew nothing" about it, and the allegation remains unproven. The DOJ filed an amended complaint Thursday night that draws on the Times report.
The wins. The Examiner lists victories for Elias's side: a preliminary injunction from Trump-appointed Judge Carl Nichols on Sept. 14 against the Postal Service's mail-ballot rule, which grew out of Trump's order tying delivery to a federal citizenship list; and three Supreme Court orders in September that left Missouri on its 2022 congressional map while voters decide a referendum on the new one. In the DOJ's lawsuits demanding unredacted state voter rolls, the firm intervened for voting-rights groups. Elias said in July, "I'm still not tired of winning." CBS News reported this week that the DOJ has won none of the 31 suits it filed, apart from a settlement with Oklahoma, and three remain pending.
What to keep in mind. This is a profile from a conservative-leaning outlet, and the Examiner's Alaska claim rests on the Times report, which Peltola's campaign disputes. The Elias firm represented groups rather than the states in the voter-roll cases. We have not read the court filings.