What's GOP Lawyers Group Up To?-"unprecedented" series of pre-election law training seminars

What's GOP Lawyers Group Up To?
David Kurtz | October 18, 2010, 9:22PM

Richard DeVos Sr.

When Richard DeVos, the Michigan billionaire who founded Amway and is a generous contributor to Republican causes, gives $150,000 to the Republican National Lawyers Association just a few weeks before the midterm elections, it makes you sit up and take notice. In the realm of political giving, $150,000 isn't that much money, but the RNLA doesn't buy TV ads, it has barely a handful of full-time staffers, and its overall budget is relatively modest. So what does the RNLA do and what did DeVos figure he'd be supporting with that money?

The RNLA is the leading independent entity on the right devoted to preparing Republican attorneys for election day and post-election lawyering. But it's also part of the right wing's bogus voter fraud noise machine, whipping up hysteria over the idea that elections are being stolen because of alleged but unproven monkeying with minority votes. For instance, last year RNLA paid a DC lawyer named Chris Berg tens of thousands of dollars for "research and investigation" and launched a program called "ACORN Watch." Berg, who did a series of blog posts for the RNLA blog on ACORN, also posts on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website, whose doctored footage of the ACORN sting launched the "scandal."

One of the regular speakers at RNLA events is J. Christian Adams, the apparatchik from the Bush Justice Department who has tried to turn the Obama Justice Department's handling of voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers into a cause celebre among conservatives, with some success. (Ever resourceful, the RNLA has used the Black Panthers case as a fund-raising tool.) Another Bush-era voting fraud huckster, Hans von Spakovsky, was scheduled to appear with Adams last week at an RNLA panel in DC.

But here's where the RNLA's activity gets interesting and what may make the timing of DeVos' $150,000 notable. As Ryan Reilly has been reporting for us at TPMmuckraker, the RNLA is currently in the midst of conducting what it bills as an "unprecedented" series of election law training seminars in the run up to the midterms elections. The seminars have been held or scheduled in several states, including Illinois, Nevada, Florida, Washington, California and New York.

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about $15,000 for every Republican trial lawyer in the country.

Oh--I forgot about the bastards who defend corporations & insurance cos. from ever having to pay anything out or be responsible for the devastation they do in the world.

bullshit they can come up with.. they have already said they will make impeachment Obama's Legacy