Republican lawyer is key player in voter suppression drive across US

[DonViejo]

Cleta Mitchell has emerged in a series of roles that many see as a Republican push on limiting voting rights

Peter Stone in Washington
Sun 25 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT

It was an abrupt end to two decades as a partner at legal giant Foley & Lardner for the influential and conservative election lawyer Cleta Mitchell.

Days after Mitchell participated in Donald Trump’s controversial 2 January phone call with Georgia’s secretary of state where the then president pressured him to “find” him more votes to reverse Joe Biden’s win, Mitchell resigned her post in the midst of an internal firm review and mounting criticism.

But Mitchell, a combative and top lawyer in the right’s drive to promote unproven charges of sizable voting fraud in 2020 and tighten future voting laws, was not idle for long. She has now emerged in a series of roles that have put her at the heart of what many see as a ferocious Republican push on limiting voting rights that now reaches across America.

Last month, Mitchell was tapped by the libertarian FreedomWorks to spearhead a $10m drive in seven key states including Georgia, Arizona and Michigan to change voting laws to curb potential but unproven election fraud, which many Democrats and legal experts view as aimed at limiting minority votes.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/25/cleta-mitchell-lawyer-us-voter-suppression

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I am so glad that Foley fired this racist asshole

[Midnight Writer]

2. Koch's mea culpa was not sincere? Color me shocked.

[struggle4progress]

3. Trump's Lawyer On Georgia Call

Updated Jan 5, 2021, 03:03pm EST
Tommy Beer
Forbes Staff

... White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said at the beginning of the call, which Mitchell was included in, that although she “is not the attorney of record,” that she “has been involved” in the campaign's legal maneuverings to try to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state of Georgia ...

... On a podcast, she described herself as a “volunteer” with the Trump campaign. Mitchell previously served on the board of the NRA and recently represented the nonprofit foundation of Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who’s been charged by federal prosecutors with defrauding donors ...

... Mitchell's second husband, Dale Mitchell, was convicted of bank fraud in 1992. Mitchell later claimed the conviction was due to “overreaching government regulation” ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/05/whos-cleta-mitchell-trumps-lawyer-on-georgia-call/?sh=6a56cc1e47f5