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Judge Thomas Griffith

Judge Griffith served on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit from 2005-2020. He is currently Special Counsel in the Washington, D. C. office of Hunton Andrews Kurth and is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School and a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University. He was also a member of President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment to the D. C. Circuit, Judge Griffith was the General Counsel of BYU and  before that a litigation partner at the Washington, D. C. law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding. From 1996 through 2000, he was Senate Legal Counsel, the non-partisan chief legal officer of the United States Senate. He is the co-author of Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election. 

“They’re citizens. They’re professionals. They’re our neighbors. If we start to view our fellow citizens as our enemies, we’re lost.”
— David Becker (Republican push to recruit election deniers as poll workers causes alarm | June 30, 2022 – The Guardian)
“Election officials never get praised if elections go right and the wrath comes down on them if they do them wrong. When we saw election officials being prosecuted for just doing their jobs... we formed [EOLDN] and we do provide pro bono legal services to any election officials who need it.”
— Ben Ginsberg (Trump’s pressure on Pence more ‘unprecedented’ than ‘what we saw in Watergate’ | June 17, 2022 – MSNBC)
“Those who are threatening … these officials, whether they're full-time, whether they're volunteers, whether they're in positions of the most senior responsibility or they're simply on the staff — those who threaten them need to know they cannot act with impunity. There will be a defense and it will be a robust defense."
— Bob Bauer (Helping election officials who are threatened | March 14, 2022 – 60 Minutes Overtime, CBS News)
"What we are seeing developing now is a huge step backwards from a focus on professionalized election administration to a heavy level of political interference in the work of trained election professionals. Our hope now is to provide [election officials] with a resource I wish they didn't have to have, but one I think they have desperately needed."
— Bob Bauer (Election Workers Are Under Attack. A Group Of Lawyers Plans To Defend Them | September 8, 2021 – National Public Radio)
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