From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: tcooley@detroitlawyer.org <tcooley@detroitlawyer.org>; pgroth@varnumlaw.com <pgroth@varnumlaw.com>; jen@jlawlegal.com <jen@jlawlegal.com>
Cc: Brannon Buck <bbuck@badhambuck.com>; Terri B. Lovell <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; Jennifer Buettner <jbuettner@birminghambar.org>; mckinney@watsonmckinney.com <mckinney@watsonmckinney.com>; suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org <suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org>; flatta@burr.com <flatta@burr.com>; bill.ide@akerman.com <bill.ide@akerman.com>; marty@mitchellmeadows.com <marty@mitchellmeadows.com>; emyang@wstrongllc.com <emyang@wstrongllc.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 07:00:02 PM CDT
Subject: Lawyers in the battleground state of Michigan and the rule of law
Dear State Bar of Michigan President Quick, Detroit Bar Association Executive Director Cooley, Grand Rapids Bar Association President Roth, Washtenaw County Bar Association President Lawrence and Ingham County Bar Association President Sinas:
As indicated at the link Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), lawyers in the non-battleground state of Alabama have not taken up the mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy to:
(i) bolster voter confidence in elections by safeguarding the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, and by providing support for election workers and officials; (ii) educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law and why they are foundational to every aspect of American lives; and (iii) suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections. Our Work (americanbar.org).The foregoing lapse of the legal profession in the non-battleground state of Alabama is lamentable.
With six months to go in the 2024 elections, it is hoped that the legal profession in the battleground state of Michigan has taken up (or will take up during the next six months) the foregoing mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy.
Thank you very much for your attention to this email. (This email is being sent to some of the intended recipients via bar association website contact forms.)
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
(for filing in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Battleground states' lawyers and ABA) Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com))
[4/7 emailed to State Bar of Michigan media relation contact mraymer@michbar.org; sent to Ingham County Bar Association using contact form Contact Us | Ingham County Bar Association (inghambar.org)]
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: ddietrich@weldriley.com <ddietrich@weldriley.com>; emil@ovblaw.com <emil@ovblaw.com>; fitzpatricka@corneillelaw.com <fitzpatricka@corneillelaw.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2024 at 06:23:27 PM CDT
Subject: Lawyers in the battleground state of Wisconsin and the rule of law
Dear State Bar of Wisconsin President Dietrich, Milwaukee Bar Association President Ovbiagele, and Dane County Bar Association President Fitzpatrick:
As indicated at the link Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), lawyers in the non-battleground state of Alabama have not taken up the mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy to:
(i) bolster voter confidence in elections by safeguarding the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, and by providing support for election workers and officials; (ii) educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law and why they are foundational to every aspect of American lives; and (iii) suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections. Our Work (americanbar.org).The foregoing lapse of the legal profession in the non-battleground state of Alabama is lamentable.
With six months to go in the 2024 elections, it is hoped that the legal profession in the battleground state of Wisconsin has taken up (or will take up during the next six months) the foregoing mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy.
Thank you very much for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
(for filing in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Battleground states' lawyers and ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com))
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>
To: mjm@mmmmlaw.com <mjm@mmmmlaw.com>; jcoatsworth@margolisedelstein.com <jcoatsworth@margolisedelstein.com>; Marla.Presley@jacksonlewis.com <marla.presley@jacksonlewis.com>; jonathan.koltash@gmail.com <jonathan.koltash@gmail.com>
Cc: Brannon Buck <bbuck@badhambuck.com>; Terri B. Lovell <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; Jennifer Buettner <jbuettner@birminghambar.org>; mckinney@watsonmckinney.com <mckinney@watsonmckinney.com>; suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org <suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org>; flatta@burr.com <flatta@burr.com>; marty@mitchellmeadows.com <marty@mitchellmeadows.com>; emyang@wstrongllc.com <emyang@wstrongllc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 06:42:21 PM CDT
Subject: Lawyers in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and the rule of law
Dear Pennsylvania Bar Association President McDonald, Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Coatsworth, Allegheny County Bar Association President Presley, and Dauphin County Bar Association President Koltash:
As indicated at the link Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com), lawyers in the non-battleground state of Alabama have not taken up the mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy to:
(i) bolster voter confidence in elections by safeguarding the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, and by providing support for election workers and officials; (ii) educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law and why they are foundational to every aspect of American lives; and (iii) suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections. Our Work (americanbar.org).The foregoing lapse of the legal profession in the non-battleground state of Alabama is lamentable.
With six months to go in the 2024 elections, it is hoped that the legal profession in the battleground state of Pennsylvania has taken up (or will take up during the next six months) the foregoing mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy.
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Thank you very much for your attention to this email.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook, AL
(for filing in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Battleground states' lawyers and ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com))
Email to the Birmingham Business Journal
From: Rob Shattuck <rdshatt@aol.com>To: srebman@bizjournals.com <srebman@bizjournals.com>
Cc: Brannon Buck <bbuck@badhambuck.com>; Terri B. Lovell <terri.lovell@alabar.org>; Jennifer Buettner <jbuettner@birminghambar.org>; mckinney@watsonmckinney.com <mckinney@watsonmckinney.com>; suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org <suzanneduffey@mc-ala.org>; flatta@burr.com <flatta@burr.com>; marty@mitchellmeadows.com <marty@mitchellmeadows.com>; emyang@wstrongllc.com <emyang@wstrongllc.com>; hduncan@bcatoday.org <hduncan@bcatoday.org>; sammons@birminghambusinessalliance.com <sammons@birminghambusinessalliance.com>; srose@montgomerychamber.com <srose@montgomerychamber.com>; nhewston@mobilechamber.com <nhewston@mobilechamber.com>; wes.allen@sos.alabama.gov <wes.allen@sos.alabama.gov>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 05:08:33 PM CDT
Subject: Birmingham Business Journal's 2024 Best of the Bar honorees
Dear Birmingham Business Journal Editor-in-Chief Rebman:
This email is not about the 2024 BBJ Best of the Bar honorees.
This email is rather to inform the Birmingham Business Journal of the failure of the Alabama legal profession to take up the ongoing current mission of the American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy to:
(i) bolster voter confidence in elections by safeguarding the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, and by providing support for election workers and officials; (ii) educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law and why they are foundational to every aspect of American lives; and (iii) suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections. Our Work (americanbar.org).This failure of the Alabama legal profession is detailed at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Alabama lawyer's pledge re ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) and Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Interim Alabama report to ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
A prime aspect of this failure of the Alabama legal profession concerns voter confidence in our elections.
For four years Donald Trump has been endeavoring to destroy voter confidence in our elections. In furtherance of this effort of Trump, tomorrow Speaker Johnson will travel to Mar-a-Lago to hold a joint press conference with Trump on "election integrity." https://apnews.com/article/congress-speaker-johnson-trump-meeting-19b923809fecfeeb4a1d232faefbdaed.
In a September 16, 2023 email that I have posted in Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: American Bar Association "Task Force for American Democracy" (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com) under the caption "Email re parties refusing to try to agree on how elections will be conducted,", I say:
I think for five years those who are involved in determining how elections shall be conducted have harmfully refused to try to agree with one another about the same, and the resultant absence of agreement contributed to and will continue the serious problem in the United States of election outcomes not being accepted by candidates and voters.I contend that Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen has no interest in building the voter confidence in our elections that Trump is trying to destroy, and Secretary Allen has only taken near meaningless steps for "election integrity" in Alabama (which Trump can approve of) and has stayed clear of working with Democratic Secretaries of State to collectively inform the American people about whether the 2020 election was "stolen" from Trump as Trump alleges, and as millions of his followers believe, and further give reassurances that Americans can have confidence in our elections, including the 2024 elections (which Trump would disapprove of Secretary Allen so doing).
Instead of trying to agree on how elections shall be conducted, each side only talks up to its base either that the other side seeks massive voter suppression or that the other side seeks massive election fraud.
Take, for example, practices like mail in balloting, ballot drop off boxes and "ballot harvesting." I submit that contentiousness over those practices has little to do with actual fraud that is associated with such practices and is almost exclusively about beliefs about whether one's side will be benefitted or disadvantaged by the there being more votes cast or less votes cast if the practice is in effect or not in effect.
The two sides refusing to make reasonable efforts to reach reasonable agreements about how elections shall be conducted enables and keeps enabled "irresponsible and extremist rhetoric and positions among elected officials and candidates for elective office" regarding elections in America.
[Edit: To clarify, different states can reasonably have different election practices and voter confidence in elections need not require that all the states have all the same practices.]
A main thing i thought the Alabama legal profession should have done (and should do) in furtherance of the mission of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy was (and is) to have engagement with Secretary of Allen regarding the foregoing, in which case I don't think Secretary Allen would be able to ignore the Alabama legal profession the way Secretary Allen has ignored me.
In the face of the foregoing failure of the Alabama legal profession, I have been contacting bar associations in battleground states, as set out at Be An Alabama Rootstriker* with Rob Shattuck: Battleground states' lawyers and ABA Task Force for American Democracy (al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com).
Further, with the Alabama legal profession doing nothing in Alabama to support the ABA Task Force's mission, I have importuned the Alabama business community to try to take up the slack. That community has not responded to me either.
I hope the information I provide in this email is worthy of the interest of the Birmingham Business Journal.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Shattuck
Mountain Brook
