AABA Presents: Election Law Panel and Dinner

Join us for dinner and 1-hour CLE on voter protection and election law! Hear from speakers from the Texas Civil Rights Project's Election Protection and Voting Rights teams and a former voting rights and elections advisor at the Brennan Center.

Zachary Dolling is a senior supervising attorney in the Voting Rights Program at TCRP. He served as lead trial counsel in a challenge to various provisions of Texas's omnibus anti-voting law SB 1. Zach was also on the trial team in Davis v. Cisneros, representing the driver and two occupants of a Biden-Harris campaign bus that, while on its way from San Antonio to Austin in October 2020, was swarmed by Trump Train vehicles. This resulted in one of the only trial verdicts in recent history finding a violation of what's known as "the KKK Act," for conspiring to use force, intimidation, or threat to prevent others from supporting or advocating for the candidate of their choice.

Carl Blair is TCRP's Senior Election Protection attorney based in Houston. Prior to joining TCRP, Carl worked and volunteered on a number of political, environmental, and election protection campaigns and had his own solo legal practice in Houston.

Sam Linn is an Associate at León Cosgrove Jiménez. Sam previoulsy worked on the voter protection team for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2020 election. In that role, he led the organization's Texas voter protection operations and worked on the DCCC's intervention in litigation over drive-thru voting in Harris County. After his time at the DCCC, Sam worked as an advisor on voting rights for the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.  Sam's work analyzing nationwide trends in restricting voting legislation, including laws like Texas’ SB 1, has been quoted in the New York Times and by the U.S. Supreme Court.