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Posted on 07/28/2025 8:03:18 AM PDT by Twotone
When Elon Musk sued Media Matters in 2023, the law firm of Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias swooped in to represent the liberal media group. It made little headway against the lawsuit before submitting millions of dollars in legal bills, prompting Media Matters officials to lash out at the firm as they faced financial ruin, according to a new report.
According to the New York Times, Elias Law Group originally represented Media Matters against Musk’s lawsuit, which accused the group of manipulating X posts to falsely link the social media platform to white nationalists and anti-Semites, part of what Musk alleged was "a ploy to drive advertisers from the platform and destroy X Corp." The litigation and other legal fights with the attorneys general of several red states have left Media Matters with $15 million in legal costs, forcing the Democratic media juggernaut to consider laying off staff, filing bankruptcy, or shutting down altogether, the Times reported.
Elias Law hasn’t helped matters.
Media Matters officials, frustrated at Elias Law's hefty legal bills, began shifting legal work for the case to other law firms, according to the Times. That prompted a blunt missive from Elias Law partner Ezra Reese in early February demanding payment of $4 million in unpaid legal fees. "We understand this case has been and remains very difficult for everyone involved, as was Musk’s intention when he brought it," Reese wrote to Media Matters president Angelo Carusone and its chief fundraiser, Mary Pat Bonner.
Reese offered to slash the payment to $2.25 million if paid within a week. Otherwise, Elias Law would "go pens down and take steps to withdraw from the case by the end of the month," the Times reported.
That upset Bonner, who replied: "You must be kidding!! This is how you treat people who have been clients for 16 years and are friends?"
Elias has maintained longtime ties to Media Matters, which Republican-turned-Democratic operative David Brock formed in 2003. Media Matters paid Elias Law Group $389,000 in legal fees in 2023, and $165,000 in 2022, according to tax filings.
The standoff could undercut Elias’s self-styled image as a progressive crusader who fights against Republicans at all costs.
It’s the latest black eye for Elias, who is perhaps best known for his role in spearheading the infamous Steele dossier on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. The Democratic National Committee cut ties with Elias Law in 2023 over concerns about Elias’s legal strategies in voting rights litigation.
Elias has portrayed himself as a pro-democracy crusader willing to take on President Donald Trump and his allies at any cost. He has fumed at prominent law firms that struck deals with the White House after Trump threatened to pull security clearances for the lawyers, among other sanctions.
Elias has called lawyers at the firms Paul, Weiss and Skadden "cowards" for settling with Trump.
But that may be what Media Matters will do to end its legal fight with Musk. According to the Times, Media Matters has attempted to settle with Musk and X through its new legal team at Susman Godfrey.
X demanded that Media Matters pay all of the cash it has in the bank and shut down operations, the Times reported. Media Matters declined the offer.
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Media Matters has been the point of the spear of Leftist - Deep State anti-truth propaganda attacks for about two decades.
This is a big, big deal.
Elias, who is perhaps best known for his role in spearheading the infamous Steele dossier on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.
Russian Collusion Conspiracy: Criminal act of Sedition by King Obama, Hitlery, and the merry band of Criminal head of Intelligence agencies, as well as lawyers like Elias.
There is no honor among thieves.
Way to go Elon! We need to get him back in the fold.
original NYC article
[and the awesome thing about all of this is that MM is too tied up fighting for its life in courts to effectively carry out its mission of hard leftist propaganda attacks against MAGA ...]
LPLC is next
I’m very happy to see the shoe on the other foot for the liberal interest groups.
They’re getting a dose of the medicine they’ve dealt out to so many of us on the right.
Karma is a b....!
This is what you do to such corporate enemies. Play hardball back. Go Elon!
All this crap about Democrats calling for “due process” for “illegal aliens” (not undocumented migrants or newcomers) is probably about making their lawyer contributors richer.
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! The VILE DEMOCRATS have BANKRUPTED a TON of MAGA people!
This is how you treat ....friends?”
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Lefties have no, nor are they to others, friends.
The mask is ripped off.
Giving them a taste of lawfare. About time our side did that.
Correct, have not seen his name mentioned on those that need be indicted, or hanged, whichever comes first. Point is, his former law associates, Perkins Coie, cut him lose a few years ago once they realized that as partners, they were becoming coconspirators if things turned against them. Kind of like what happened to Arthur Anderson after the Enron suits, they were wiped out albeit the criminal case was overturned after the firm virtually dissolved.
As far as Elias goes, I believe PC was mentioned that as the election advisor to Hitlery, PC was involved in how to transfer the fake “Steele report” to the government via Fusion. PC was a partnership LLC with Elias.
Die, MM. Die.
Ah, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Short answer, pay up, sucker. Insurrection ain't cheap.
Karma payback. Eaten by the very lawfare they supported.
Point is, his former law associates, Perkins Coie, cut him lose a few years ago once they realized that as partners, they were becoming coconspirators if things turned against them.
IMHO, they are co-Conspirators. They were 100% the Dossier, they had an FBI terminal in the offices of Perkins Coie that they used for political purposes and to research political opponents of Obama and the Clintons.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gaetz-jordan-fbi-workspace-democratic-law-firm
https://lidblog.com/perkins-coie/
I call him “KING”, Obama used the FBI for political purposes by placing a terminal in the law offices of Perkins Coie. Elias is but one of the people there that utilized federal information and resources for political purposes.
one could say that the current immigration situation was caused by McCain’s Gang of 8 that proposed “immigration reform” that did not benefit the immigrants. It did not benefit the average taxpayer or voter.
It only benefitted immigration lawyers.
One should catalog all the progress that did not occur because the lawyers insisted on taking too much.
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