When we talk about election integrity, we tend to talk about things like illegal voting, voting machines, ballot harvesting, and ballot drop boxes. What we neglect to deal with sometimes is all the election interference that goes on. Of course, in this 2024 election cycle it has become so evident that it isn’t even deniable.
In 2020, you may recall, the FBI was in possession of the Hunter Biden laptop, in which was evidence of the Biden family profiting from the Joe Biden name. With Hunter’s involvement in Burisma Holdings, we learned of the “Big Guy” profiting from Hunter’s position as well as influence-peddling in China, Romania, Russia, and elsewhere.
When it became evident that all of this was going to be exposed, more than fifty current and former intelligence officials claimed that the laptop story was “Russian disinformation” two weeks before the election. Large percentages of voters who found out later that the laptop was real stated that they would not have voted for Joe Biden had they known the truth.
This time around we have criminal case after criminal case against the leading opposition candidate. The current administration either intended to imprison their chief political opponent or make it impossible for him to win. Election interference!
J. Christian Adams is the President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm. He served from 2005 to 2010 in the Voting Section at the United States Department of Justice. He was appointed by President Donald Trump to be a member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity established in 2017.
He represented multiple presidential campaigns in election litigation. He litigates election and voting rights cases throughout the United States and the Territory of Guam and brought the first private party litigation resulting in the cleanup of corrupted voter rolls under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. He successfully litigated the landmark case of United States v. Ike Brown in the Southern District of Mississippi, the first case brought under the Voting Rights Act on behalf of a discriminated-against white minority in Noxubee County. He also received Department’s Special Commendation for Outstanding Service in 2008 for work on Voting Rights Act cases including against the school board of Georgetown County, South Carolina.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller about civil rights, “Injustice” (Regnery, 2011). Prior to his time at the Justice Department, he served as General Counsel to the South Carolina Secretary of State. He also serves as a columnist at PJ Media and is a contributor at The Hill and has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Review, Washington Examiner, American Spectator, the Washington Times, and a variety of other publications. He has a law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of the South Carolina and Virginia Bars as well as an Eagle Scout.
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