An elections lawyer, who once declared to the American Bar Association Journal that she is “the crazy person who went to law school to do exactly this,” got her wish when President Joe Biden picked her to sit on the Federal Election Commission.
Dara Lindenbaum was just nominated to replace retiring Democratic Commissioner Steven Walther on the panel that reviews election spending and advertising.
Let’s go! https://t.co/oBEG1TfnNj
— Dara Lindenbaum (@DaraLind) December 1, 2021
Fans and critics were quick to point out she is a supporter of Stacey Abrams. She worked on the Georgia gubernatorial candidate’s 2018 Senate campaign. When Abrams announced her gubernatorial bid, Lindenbaum tweeted, “Let’s go!”
…I’m delighted that Pres. Biden has nominated Dara Lindenbaum (@DaraLind) to the @FEC.
Dara will bring valuable perspective with her deep experience as an election-law practitioner. I hope her confirmation is swift and smooth, and I look forward to working with her.
— Ellen L. Weintraub (@EllenLWeintraub) January 21, 2022
And she’s won the backing of FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Trump critic, and controversial liberal lawyer Marc Elias.
Her work on former 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry’s campaign sparked an interest in election law, and she subsequently graduated from George Washington University Law School.
She told GW Law: “The goal is always that Election Day is quiet. You hope the hotline phones don’t ring because everybody knows where they should go to vote and nobody experiences any problems at the polls.”
Unlike during the Trump administration, the Biden White House appears eager to end vacancies on the six-person agency, which is evenly split along political lines.
