On November 4th, John Hardin “Jack” Young was quoted in a Business Insider article addressing the flurry of pre-election lawsuits leading up to the 2024 presidential election, making this cycle one of the most litigated in U.S. history:

“‘Probably the most discouraging part of this whole litigation experiment is that it has little or no connection to democracy and credible elections,’ said John Hardin Young, an election law expert and senior counsel at the Washington, DC, law firm Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock.

‘It’s gamesmanship,’ said Young, who said litigation has ‘become a part of the political strategy.’

‘It’s, in a way, a prelude to postelection challenges where the political message has been mangled together with the litigation,’ he added.”

Find the full article here.