How shady Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias is thwarting voters will

A left-wing legal group with a deceptive name is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump’s massive 2024 election victory into real change.The mission of Democracy Forward: thwarting the choices of the 77 million voters who supported Trump for president.The group sues the Trump administration repeatedly, venue-shopping for sympathetic district court judges — the lowest federal jurists on the totem pole — who then act as stooges, issuing national injunctions to halt Trump’s agenda.Never mind how flimsy or outright false the legal claims.The brain behind Democracy Forward is the scandal-plagued Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, who chairs the group. He’s the same culprit whose fingerprints were all over the fake anti-Trump Steele Dossier in 2016, launching the “Russia collusion” narrative.Elias was also behind the state-by-state changes in election law intended to tilt the scales against Republicans in 2020. On Friday, Democracy Forward struck again, as US District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued an order suspending Trump’s plans to shrink 21 federal departments and agencies — everything from the departments of Energy, Commerce and Labor to the Social Security Administration, the Small Business Administration and the National Science Foundation.In terms of sheer size, this is the most consequential nationwide injunction slapped on Trump yet.Democracy Forward claims to be upholding democracy itself. As its website declares: “At this critical moment, when those who were responsible for January 6th have returned to power, we must use the law to defend our democracy and build for a better future.”  There’s the big lie — the insidious suggestion that Trump “returned to power” through some illicit coup.Truth is, he was elected by huge popular and Electoral College majorities.Candidate Trump’s winning agenda included pledges to drain the federal swamp, shrink the size and cost of government, and ...