Marc Elias is a disgusting scumbag. He is the lawyer that Democrats go to in order to whitewash lies, launder money, or push frivolous lawsuits.
You may know him as the man who washed the money that paid for the Steele Dossier, charging the Clinton campaign the costs as "legal expenses." He is so sleazy that the sleazy law firm he worked for aced him out; his stench was so bad.
He is one of what Scott Adams rightly called the Democrats' "Designated Liars," along with sleazebags like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, Chris van Hollen, and the various folks the Democrats put out when only the sleaziest liars will do.
He makes Saul Goodman look clean as a whistle. He makes the crack whore down the street look like a model of ethics and civility. Mafia bagmen follow a stricter moral code than Elias does.
If we ever get incontrovertible evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, which I believe is possible if not likely, Marc Elias will undoubtedly have played a starring role in the execution. He's the sort of punk that Humphrey Bogart would have slapped around for blackmailing a widow.
Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
Elias, as with all the national Democrats, is absolutely gobsmacked that the scheme to subvert the Virginia Constitution in order to help the Democrats Gerrymander the state failed. Elias believes he is the cleverest man in the room, as apparently Hakeem Jeffries believed he was, and it never occurred to this snake of a man that the law would apply to Democrats.
Marc Elias has reached the "publicly calling for the abolition of the Virginia state government" stage of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) May 12, 2026
Much norms. Very democracy. Such rule of law. https://t.co/hRD6PGYNQI
Hakeem Jeffries and company wanted to convince Virginia Democrats to summarily dismiss the entire Supreme Court and replace the current members with ones more compliant or more blackmailable. Others want Spanberger to simply ignore the Court's ruling and force the new 10-1 map into law.
Elias, though, seems to think that merely subverting the law is not going far enough. If you want to preserve norms and democracy, you need to throw the whole government out and replace it.
The Virginia Constitution was written at the same time as the Revolution kicked off, and so it shouldn't surprise us that it justifies replacing a government that is not adequately representing the people with one that does.
Marc Elias seems to think that failing to adequately serve Virginians, who are split pretty evenly between Democrats and Republicans, will only be possible if over 90% of their representatives are Democrats, with about half living in or around Fairfax.
So he suggests dissolving the current Virginia government and replacing it with one more to his liking. How very "norm-y" and "democratic."
Call it the Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro model of government. The governor can be a former CIA officer, the Attorney General a homicidal maniac, and perhaps Marc Elias can be Minister of Propaganda and Chief Censor.
Notice the shifting goalposts.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 12, 2026
In South Carolina, it’s about having a black person in Congress.
But in Tennessee, because the Democrat being booted is white and his probable GOP replacement is black, it’s suddenly not.
The constant? Democrats in power. That’s all this is. https://t.co/IFIyxgQtK7
Democrats keep referring to the Civil War. Governor Walz did, as he talked about being "at war" with the federal government. Graham Platner and Hasan Piker both talked up violent revolutions. Hakeem Jeffries talks about "Maximum Warfare Everywhere All the Time," and now Marc Elias is suggesting that Virginia's state government be abolished.
James Carville says Democrats will have to “save democracy” by further rigging the system: “They are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and DC as states. They’re just going to have to do it. And they may have to expand the courts.” pic.twitter.com/dYab9CNz0G
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) August 7, 2025
Democrats don't just hate Republicans; they hate the Republican system of government because it does not allow them to impose their will.
They talk of norms one minute, then call for violent revolution, rigging the system, fundamentally changing the country, or celebrate Nazis the next.
House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries proposes a nationwide radical takeover of the courts if Democrats gain power:
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 11, 2026
"We're going to have to explore judicial 'reform' state by state and at the federal level...everything should be on the table as far as I'm concerned." pic.twitter.com/7maxVExZXy
Democrats are now threatening every Supreme Court in the country at the state level and have made clear that they will pack the US Supreme Court to make it compliant with their demands.
This is where we are. Democrats are not the loyal opposition. They are the color revolution party.
UPDATE: Jonathan Turley has thoughts...
Now, Elias is reminding Virginians that they can respond to an opposing court decision by eliminating some or all of the Virginia state government. It is the logic of what I have called the "new Jacobin"... https://t.co/aTPU219MRO
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 13, 2026
It is another example of the “by any means necessary” culture of the left today. There is no institution or value that is sacred. This is why I recently wrote about the rise of “the new Jacobins” in my book Rage and the Republic, lawyers and law professors rationalizing the trashing of the Constitution and our institutions to achieve their political goals.
Elias has long been controversial for his tactics.
It was Elias who was the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign when it secretly funded the infamous Steele dossier and pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was later indicted but acquitted).
Clinton campaign officials denied any involvement in the Steele Dossier. When journalists discovered after the election that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the Steele dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie, they were reportedly stonewalled. The campaign was ultimately sanctioned by the Federal Election Commission for the subterfuge.
New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said at the time that Elias denied involvement in the anti-Trump dossier. When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Times reporter Maggie Haberman later wrote that “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.”
Elias’s group later unsuccessfully led efforts to challenge Democratic electoral losses.
In Maryland, Elias’s team supported another abusive gerrymandering scheme that a court found not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses. The court found that the map “subverts the will of those governed.”
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