Judicial Watch Senior Attorney T. Russell Nobile to Testify before Congress on Restoring ‘Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that T. Russell Nobile, a senior Judicial Watch attorney and election law expert, will provide testimony on Tuesday, February 10, before the House Committee on House Administration at a hearing titled: “Make Elections Great Again: How to Restore Trust and Integrity in Federal Elections.”

Watch live here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mlv7FYlv-8).

House Republicans hope to advance this week the “Make Elections Great Again Act” (H.R. 7300), a sweeping elections overhaul that would mandate photo identification for voting in federal elections and require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. (Similar legislation, the “SAVE” Act, is also pending.)

Nobile’s testimony also comes as the Supreme Court of the United States is considering a Judicial Watch case to apply federal law to prohibit states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. 

In January, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of granting standing in a historic case filed by Judicial Watch on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors, who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day

Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of its work, Judicial Watch assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii and cleaned up voter rolls across the country, among other achievements. 

Federal courts in Oregon, California and Illinois have ruled that Judicial Watch’s lawsuits against those states may proceed, forcing them to clean their voter rolls.

Judicial Watch announced in May that its work led to the removal of more than five million ineligible names from voter rolls nationwide.

Russ Nobile has litigated in federal and state courts nationwide, as well as the Supreme Court, and has testified before the U.S. House and Senate Judiciary Committees and other congressional committees.

Prior to joining Judicial Watch, Nobile served as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 

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