Longtime GOP Election Lawyer Whose Florida Recount Work Led to Bush v. Gore Win Tells Jan. 6 Committee: Trump Lost and It ‘Was Not Close’ – By Marisa Sarnoff (Law and Crime) / June 13, 2022
The attorney whose Supreme Court litigation put George W. Bush in the White House joined the long procession of top Republican lawyers telling the Jan. 6 Committee that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election—and it “was not close.”
Benjamin Ginsberg is well-known for his fierce pursuit of litigation in support of Republican candidates. As Law&Crime previously reported, he has spent four decades in the field of election law, often searching for evidence of widespread voter fraud—and coming up empty. He played a key role in the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election that led to the Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore that ultimately resulted in the younger Bush’s presidency.
His role in Monday’s hearing before the House Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the U.S. Capitol was to offer some perspective and context for the dozens of cases brought by lawyers for Trump in the weeks following the 2020 election.
