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Norm Eisen needs to pay a price, and he eventually will.
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Norm Eisen needs to pay a price, and he eventually will.
Democratic attorneys general deputized private lawyers from a nonprofit run by former Obama ambassador and anti-Trump activist Norm Eisen to help prosecute supporters of President Donald Trump for organizing alternate electors to challenge the 2020 election results, according to tax records and internal memos released under open record laws.
The relationship between state and local prosecutors and Eisen’s States United Democracy Center (SUDC) raises troubling questions about the independence of judicial decisions and the influence of a donor-funded group on matters of law and order, experts said.
At least one state — Minnesota — swore in lawyers from Eisen’s SUDC as “special attorneys” serving “at the pleasure of the Attorney General,” the memos show. Other state and local prosecutors accepted advice and free work, the memos show.
"This is highly inappropriate for left-wing nonprofits to become the prosecutors against their political enemies,” Mike Davis, a former GOP Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer who vetted federal judges for two decades before founding the nonprofit Article III Project, told Just the News.
Over the last decade, more state and local prosecutors have turned to private lawyers for prosecuting criminal and civil cases, including Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who hired a man she was dating, and New York prosecutors who accepted help on climate cases from billionaire Michael Bloomberg's nonprofit.
The arrangements have also become an issue in the courts.
Former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, a defendant in the Arizona 2020 election prosecution, asked for a hearing on the role of Eisen's group a year ago in her bid to disqualify Arizona Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes from the case.
The state Supreme Court has thrown out the charges in the case, but Mayes has vowed to restore them. Bobb has pleaded not guilty to her prosecution, and a trial date was set for Jan. 5, 2026, but procedural motions have delayed that trial.
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The relationship between state and local prosecutors and Eisen’s States United Democracy Center (SUDC) raises troubling questions about the independence of judicial decisions and the influence of a donor-funded group on matters of law and order, experts said.
At least one state — Minnesota — swore in lawyers from Eisen’s SUDC as “special attorneys” serving “at the pleasure of the Attorney General,” the memos show. Other state and local prosecutors accepted advice and free work, the memos show.
"This is highly inappropriate for left-wing nonprofits to become the prosecutors against their political enemies,” Mike Davis, a former GOP Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer who vetted federal judges for two decades before founding the nonprofit Article III Project, told Just the News.
Over the last decade, more state and local prosecutors have turned to private lawyers for prosecuting criminal and civil cases, including Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who hired a man she was dating, and New York prosecutors who accepted help on climate cases from billionaire Michael Bloomberg's nonprofit.
The arrangements have also become an issue in the courts.
Former Trump lawyer Christina Bobb, a defendant in the Arizona 2020 election prosecution, asked for a hearing on the role of Eisen's group a year ago in her bid to disqualify Arizona Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes from the case.
The state Supreme Court has thrown out the charges in the case, but Mayes has vowed to restore them. Bobb has pleaded not guilty to her prosecution, and a trial date was set for Jan. 5, 2026, but procedural motions have delayed that trial.
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Anti-Trump lawyer’s nonprofit secretly aided state prosecutions of Trump supporters, memos show
Free pro-bono assistance to attorneys general offices raises ethics concerns about donor influence, political bias, experts say.
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