The Republican National Committee has been unleashed from a decades-old prohibition against participating in election law litigation, and it is now vigorously joining court action across the country to defend new voting laws in GOP-run states.
The RNC had been under a consent decree since 1982 after the Democratic National Committee sued it over allegedly disenfranchising minority voters in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. The consent decree kept the RNC out of organizing poll watchers, enlisting poll workers and participating in election law litigation.
The RNC is now ramping up all those activities.
“In all cases, it’s about transparency,” an RNC official told The Washington Times, requesting anonymity to discuss litigation strategy.