Independent lawyers partnering with the Trump campaign on select election challenges are arguing that what they see as suppression of the GOP vote during the 2020 presidential election is reminiscent of similar ballot-box access battles during the 1960s civil rights era.
The national conservative legal group Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society announced Friday that it will file federal and state lawsuits challenging the presidential election results in battleground states, with the Trump campaign joining the lawsuits on a case-by-case basis. Trump lawyers have argued that voting practices, particularly unique methods adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, created disparate treatment or unequal protection of voters in violation of the Constitution.
“It is a shame on our nation that … there was a concerted effort for almost a century in the Deep South to prevent blacks’ access to the ballot box,” Amistad Project Director Phill Kline told “Just the News AM” television program on Monday. “And most of our election law … says government should not put their thumb on the scale to favor one demographic and to suppress another demographic. And it’s generally centered around race. But now, the strategy is the same, but it’s a different target group.”