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PILF President J. Christian Adams joined RAV's Amanda Head on Just the News, No Noise to discuss PILF's complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) on behalf of three Green Bay residents over Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jeffreys’ ignoring laws put into place to detect abuse of the Election Day registration process. You can learn more about the case here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-acts-to-stop-city-of-green-bay-from-ignoring-election-day-voter-registration-safeguards/ Additionally, Adams discusses states that remain a concern as we approach the 2024 election including Michigan and Nevada. He also discusses PILF's Tie Elections Database that illustrates how one fraudulent vote can change the outcome of an election. Access the Tied Elections Database here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/tied-elections/

PILF's Maureen Riordan testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on S. 4. If passed, this bill would put radical bureaucrats at the Department of Justice in total control of our elections.

Since before the 2020 election, PILF has been notifying Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson about more than 20,000 deceased registrants on the state's voter roll. These names still remain on the voter roll as we enter the 2024 election year! PILF has an ongoing lawsuit in federal court to force Secretary Benson to do her job and remove these more than 20,000 names. You can learn more about the case here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/cases/pilf-v-benson-2/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined Lou Dobbs to discuss our lawsuit over children voting for school board in Howard County, MD. They also discuss states that still have major vulnerabilities in their electoral process. Key states with issues are Michigan and Nevada. PILF has taken action in both states. Learn more about PILF's work below. Michigan: https://publicinterestlegal.org/cases/pilf-v-benson-2/ Nevada: https://vimeo.com/465165902

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed an amici curiae brief on the merits with the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to reverse Colorado’s unconstitutional action of removing President Trump from the ballot. Learn more: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-files-brief-arguing-why-president-trump-must-be-kept-on-the-ballot/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined Newsmax to discuss allegations that Fulton District Attorney, Fani Willis, had an improper relationship with the the special prosecutor hired to prosecute President Trump in Georgia. The Public Interest Legal Foundation is fighting against attempts to have Trump removed from the ballot using the 14th Amendment. These attempts are destabilizing to the country and attack the basic American tradition of letting the voters decide who our elected leaders are. You can learn more here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/pilf-to-scotus-president-trump-must-be-kept-on-the-ballot/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams, joined KTSA to discuss the Foundation's brief to the United States Supreme Court defending President Trump's right to appear on the ballot in Colorado and other states. These attempts to remove President Trump from the ballot are partisan attacks on the basic American principle that the people elect our leaders. You can read the full U.S. Supreme Court brief here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/23-696-tsac-PILF-Jan.-4-2024.pdf

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined The John Stiegerwald show to discuss our lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Secretary of State for refusing to disclose records relating to an error at PennDOT that allowed foreign nationals to register to vote for two decades. PILF won this case in summary judgment, but the Commonwealth has appealed the ruling. You can learn more here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/press/doj-files-legal-brief-supporting-pilfs-right-to-obtain-pennsylvania-records-relating-to-voter-registration-by-foreign-nationals/ Adams also discusses the 2023 elections, reforms that should be instituted before the 2024 elections, and PILF's fight to restore the day in Election Day.

On this episode, America First Legal’s Vice President, Gene Hamilton joins PILF President, J. Christian Adams for a discussion on the weaponization of the Department of Justice and Project 2025’s mission to ensure that the next President will have conservative policy recommendations to reform government agencies like DOJ. Do you want to serve in the next presidential administration? Then, create your profile and submit your resume to the 2025 Presidential Transition Project Talent Database at https://www.project2025.org/. You can purchase J. Christian Adams book, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department on Amazon.

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joins Newsmax's Frontline to discuss a Connecticut Judge's ruling to overturn the results of the Bridgeport Mayoral Election due to video surveillance of people stuffing multiple absentee ballots into outdoor ballot drop boxes.

Today, the attorneys of the Public Interest Legal Foundation are arguing before the First Cricut Court of Appeals in its case against Mane Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows. This case implicates significant issues of press freedom, the First Amendment, and transparent elections. At issue is Maine’s penalties for speaking about errors discovered in Maine's voter roll. Learn more about the case: https://publicinterestlegal.org/cases/pilf-v-matthew-dunlap/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined Scott Hennen to discuss PILF's lawsuit in North Dakota that aims to restore the day in Election Day. The acceptance of ballots that arrive days and even weeks after Election Day is causing people to lose trust in our election process. Learn more about the lawsuit here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/save-election-day/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams, joined WMAL to discuss our lawsuit in Howard County. Howard County allows public school children in 6th-12th grade to vote for a student member of the county school board. This denies Catholic school students and other students who attend religious schools the right to vote. Moreover, this is a push to initialize voting! Learn more about the case here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/podcast/episode-6-child-votin

Ever wonder what happens when an election ends in a tie? Clara Belle Wheeler, a PILF Board member and Vice Chairman of Albemarle Count Electoral Board, joins our podcast to discuss her experience participating in a lottery to decide the winner of a tied election that would decide which political party would control the Virginia House of Delegates. The Public Interest Legal Foundation has launched a tied elections database that logs elections that have ended in ties or been decided by one vote. Together these more than 700 elections show that one illegal vote can affect the outcome of an election. You can access the full database here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/tied-elections/

Our Client, Deroy Murdoch, joined FBN's Varney & Co. to discuss our lawsuit challenging New York City's law that allows foreign nationals to vote in municipal elections. Our lawsuit alleges that this law violates the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Learn more about the case: https://publicinterestlegal.org/podcast/episode-9-nycs-foreign-citizens-voting-law-violates-the-15th-amendment/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined The Kevin Wall Show to discuss our latest lawsuit that aims to restore the day in Election Day. We have sued North Dakota for violating a federal law that requires a single national Election Day. North Dakota, along with 17 other states and the District of Columbia, accept ballots that arrive after Election Day. Learn more: https://publicinterestlegal.org/save-election-day/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined The David Webb Show to discuss our new lawsuit in North Dakota that aims to restore the day in Election Day. The state accepts ballots that arrive 13 days after Election Day. North Dakota is not alone in accepting ballots after Election Day. In total 18 states and the District of Columbia accept ballots that arrive after Election Day. Learn more: https://publicinterestlegal.org/save-election-day/

Our team of the country’s top election lawyers are fighting to save Election Day. Federal law requires a single national Election Day to be held on the second Tuesday in November. Every mention of Election Day in federal law is singular, not plural.

PILF President, J. Christian Adams, joined The Brett Winterble Show to discuss our new report highlighting documents obtained through litigation revealing that North Carolina identified 1,454 registrants on the voter roll who did not appear to be naturalized before Election Day 2014 and would need to be challenged at the polls. Read the full report: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Motor-Voter-at-30-North-Carolina-FINAL.pdf

Special Guest Don Palmer, a Commissioner on the Election Assistance Commission, joins this episode of Protecting Your Vote. PILF President, J. Christian Adams, and Palmer discuss the cancel culture toward conservative election lawyers. Palmer knows about this from personal experience. He was recently attacked for speaking to a gathering of Republican Secretaries of State. Additionally, Palmer discusses the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). He addresses how he found ERIC useful in Virginia, but that the organization needs to make changes to address issues of perceived partisanship.

Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow and PILF Board Member, Hans von Spakovksy joins the podcast to discuss his and PILF President, J. Christian Adams, PJ Media series exposing the top 10 law schools. The "elite" law schools have become political indoctrination camps that don't even teach law. You can read the series at pjmedia.com

Never heard of ERIC? It is an acronym not a person that stands for the Electronic Registration Information Center. ERIC is a program that allows states to find the names of individuals registered to vote in other states. Currently, it is the only program set up that has the ability to do this. Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow, Hans von Spakovksy joins the show to discuss what ERIC does, problems with the organization, and reforms it needs to make. PILF President, J. Christian Adams, and Hans von Spakovsky wrote a report breaking down a list of reforms ERIC needs to make: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LM328.pdf

PILF President, J. Christian Adams, joined WFLA's Good Morning Orlando to discuss Florida's success story in reforming their elections. The state went from being a laughing stock after the 2000 hanging chad debacle to one of the few states that is able to get its election results in on election night. Read PILF's full report on the policies that transformed Florida's elections: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Report-Worst_to_First-Web.pdf

Florida Secretary of State, Cord Byrd, joins Protecting Your Vote. He discusses Florida's election procedures that allow for the state to report its election results in a timely fashion on election night. He, also, discusses how election crime referrals were gathering dust in county prosecutors' offices. PILF's report Safe Harbor uncovered 156 election crime referrals by supervisors of elections where nothing had been done by county prosecutors. Governor Ron DeSantis saw this problem and created a statewide election crimes prosecutor to ensure that election crimes are being prosecuted. Read PILF's full report here: https://publicinterestlegal.org/reports/safe-harbor-how-many-potential-election-crimes-languish-in-florida-prosecutors-offices/

PILF President, J. Christian Adams joined KFYI's James Harris to discuss our new report on Maricopa County that reveals according to government records 222 foreign nationals have been removed from the county voter roll since 2015. And yes, some of them have voted. Read the full report: https://publicinterestlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Maricopa-AZ-Noncitizen-Report-2023-FINAL.pdf