Former Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who was ousted in the Republican primary election last year due to his hostility to election integrity, has moved on to progressive causes since announcing he was voting for Joe Biden for president last year.
He is now a board member for State Democracy Defenders (SDD), the group started by former Obama administration diplomat and longtime Democratic operative Norm Eisen, considered the architect of the lawsuits this year against the new Trump administration. SDD, which consists of both State Democracy Defenders Fund and State Democracy Defenders Action, provides funding to leading progressive election attorney Marc Elias and his lawsuits and is funded itself by progressive billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Action Fund.
Elias frequently filed lawsuits in Arizona attempting to halt election integrity measures and intervened to defend progressive interests in election lawsuits.
Eisen has recently been criticized by X owner Elon Musk and leading Republican officials due to his lawsuits against the Trump administration. He also co-founded Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which “was once led by Clinton operative David Brock and is an approved funding group of the Democracy Alliance, which helps guide donations from wealthy liberals to anti-Republican activist organizations,” according to The Washington Free Beacon. Eisen served as special counsel to congressional Democrats in their impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
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