TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 22, 2022

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr and a group of prominent Republicans have launched a new legal group aimed at defending state legislatures’ right to set election laws. The nonprofit group, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, has already filed two briefs in election law cases backing state legislatures' ability to change voting rules, Reuters reports. Bobby Burchfield, previously with King & Spalding, said the group does not think courts should set the rules for elections. He previously represented the Republican National Committee and Donald Trump’s reelection campaign in a pre-election challenge to deadline extensions in North Carolina. He says the group is not connected to Trump and that the founders do not believe the 2020 election was stolen.