What happened: Personal injury trial lawyers and George Soros-funded groups are financially backing the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), which is leading efforts to oppose Texas’s proposed redistricting plan.
Tell me more: The NDRC has called Texas’s redistricting proposal a threat to democracy and is rallying national Democratic figures to oppose it.
- Major donations to the NDRC include $500,000 from Soros’s Democracy PAC and $50,000 from the trial lawyer-funded American Association for Justice (AAJ).
Worth noting: The AAJ has deep ties to Texas personal injury trial lawyers, including leadership within the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Some of those same lawyers are funding new PACs, such as the Arnold and Itkin-led Texans for Truth and Liberty PAC, aiming to influence GOP primaries with multimillion-dollar donations.
TLR Thoughts: This is yet another example of how personal injury trial lawyers are increasingly leveraging their political muscle to shape policy far beyond the courtroom.
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