DNC builds out legal team as it braces for contentious midterm elections
Democrats are actively preparing for a potentially tight and contentious midterm election by hiring lawyers,establishing a extensive voter protection infrastructure,and deploying thousands of election observers nationwide. For the first time, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has created an internal litigation team, led by former Justice Department lawyer Dan Freeman, to handle election-related legal disputes, especially as President Donald Trump and Republicans pursue their own election integrity efforts. The DNC is also expanding its efforts to inform and assist voters through training programs, a voter protection hotline, and the online resource IWillVote.com.The goal is to safeguard voting rights and counter Republican measures they see as restrictive.
Meanwhile,republicans are ramping up their legal strategies,with plans to address election issues through numerous active cases across dozens of states. Trump has announced the departure of a key DOJ attorney to support Republican election efforts in upcoming elections.The Republican National Committee (RNC) is actively working to secure elections through litigation, voter roll protections, and hotlines for reporting issues on Election Day. Both parties are preparing extensive legal and operational measures to influence the outcome of the midterms and future elections.
Democrats are gearing up for a potentially close and contentious midterm election by hiring lawyers, building out a nationwide “voter protection infrastructure,” and deploying tens of thousands of election observers across the country.
The preparations include, for the first time, an internal Democratic National Committee litigation department designed to fight election-related legal battles as President Donald Trump and Republicans pursue their own sweeping election-integrity campaign ahead of November.
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The DNC team is led by director Dan Freeman, who previously spent 15 years as a trial attorney at the Justice Department. According to a DNC official, the team features a second full-time litigator in addition to Freeman and several support lawyers.
The Elias Law Group is also working litigation for the the DNC and its sister committees, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Democratic state attorneys general are also filing their own lawsuits in attempts to counter alleged election interference from the Trump administration, including a challenge to Trump’s order limiting mail-in voting.
Beyond the new litigation team, the DNC is also expanding its resources “to equip voters with the information they need to properly register and cast their ballots,” a DNC official explained. Those efforts include training and mobilizing thousands of “voter protection” volunteers and poll observers.
Furthermore, the DNC will operate a voter assistance hotline, monitored by DNC staff starting in October, and a voter resource hub, IWillVote.com, which has been in operation since the 2012 election cycle.
“The Democratic National Committee is expanding our voter protection infrastructure to defend Americans’ sacred right to vote and hold Trump and Republicans accountable in the courtroom for their attacks,” DNC spokesman Angelo Fernandez Hernandez told the Washington Examiner.
“The Democratic Party currently has voter protection staff in more than 30 states, and we will recruit, train, and deploy tens of thousands of observers across the country this November,” Fernandez Hernandez added. “While Trump and his Republican allies attempt to restrict access to the ballot box, Democrats remain committed to ensuring every eligible voter has their voice heard.”
Republicans are preparing for their own Election Day legal fights. Trump announced last Friday that U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin would soon be leaving his post at the DOJ to work directly on Republican legal fights in the 2026 and 2028 elections.
RNC Chairman Joe Gruters told the Washington Examiner that the committee already has nearly 180 active “election integrity” cases across 37 states.
“The RNC has been working around the clock to secure the ballot box,” he said in a statement. “We’re staffed, battle-tested, and ready to respond to any Election Day issue in real time.”
Ally Triolo, the RNC’s communications director for election integrity, called the recent Supreme Court order that cleared one hurdle for the president’s mail-in ballot order “a vital step toward protecting our elections from far-left Democrats who want to cheat the system and open the floodgates to fraud.”
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“The RNC will keep fighting to secure our voter rolls, defend proof-of-citizenship requirements, and ensure American elections are decided by American citizens only,” she added.
The RNC has plans to operate hotlines in its 22 target states for voters to report Election Day issues, in addition to an online portal at protectthevote.com.
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