It was just two months ago when the new leadership team at the Republican National Committee started making significant personnel changes, including hiring two new lawyers to oversee the party’s election-year legal efforts.
One of the attorneys was longtime Republican lawyer Charlie Spies, who was hired to serve as the RNC’s chief counsel. That didn’t last: Spies was “pushed out” after failing to embrace Donald Trump’s ridiculous election conspiracy theories.
The other lawyer the RNC hired in March was Christina Bobb, who was tapped to serve as the party’s senior counsel for election integrity, and who was back in the news Tuesday. My MSNBC colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim reported:
Rudy Giuliani and several other defendants in the Arizona “fake electors” case have been arraigned on charges of conspiracy, fraud and forgery over an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor. … Others arraigned Tuesday include former Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and Christina Bobb.
All of the criminal defendants, including Bobb, pleaded not guilty.
And while time will tell what becomes of the prosecutions, it’s difficult not to marvel at the ongoing set of circumstances. As MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked online, “What do you think the news cycle today would be like if the DNC’s head of voter mobilization got arraigned for voter fraud?”
That need not be a rhetorical question. Bobb, of course, enjoys the presumption of innocence, but it continues to be no small detail that the Republican National Committee’s election integrity lawyer has been indicted on election-related charges.
What’s more, by all appearances, this has not affected her status at the RNC. It’s not as if party officials learned of the criminal charges and hastily arranged her going-away party. On the contrary, Bobb stands accused of election-related crimes and she’s still the RNC’s election integrity lawyer.
Charlie Spies was shown the doo