33 Facts About James Bopp

James Bopp is most known for his work associated with election laws, anti-abortion model legislation, and campaign finance.

James Bopp later served as Indiana's committeeman on the Republican National Committee, and was the RNC's vice chairman from 2008 to 2012.

James Bopp is a native of Terre Haute, Indiana, and holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University and a JD degree from the University of Florida College of Law.

James Bopp is known for his staunch social conservatism, and his past and present clients are "a who's who of social conservatism," including the Traditional Values Coalition, the Home School Legal Defense Association, Concerned Women for America, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

James Bopp has been the general counsel for National Right to Life since 1978, the James Madison Center for Free Speech since 1997, and as the special counsel for Focus on the Family since 2004.

James Bopp has repeatedly been named one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the United States by the National Law Journal,.

James Bopp became Indiana's Republican National Committeeman on the Republican National Committee in 2006, and became the RNC's Vice Chairman in 2008.

James Bopp said after the convention that he was defeated because he supported Richard Mourdock over incumbent Richard Lugar for the Republican nomination for US Senate in 2012.

In 2009, James Bopp was the lead sponsor of an RNC resolution that initially called on the Democratic Party to change its name to Democratic Socialist Party.

However, three attorneys in James Bopp's office left to work for Herman Cain.

James Bopp has repeatedly represented Indiana on the Republican Party's platform committee, including in 2016.

James Bopp opposed an effort by some delegates to replace the 60-page platform that the committee had adopted with a simplified two-page "statement of principles" that excluded any mention of contentious issues, such as same-sex marriage.

Trump refused to concede the election and made false claims that the election was "stolen" from him; James Bopp supported Trump's false claims.

James Bopp's lawsuit, brought on behalf of a handful of voters in each of the four states, sought to throw out more than 6.3 million votes across 18 counties and therefore made Trump the winner of those states, and thus the election.

One week after filing the lawsuits, James Bopp abruptly withdrew the suit.

James Bopp represented True the Vote, a right-wing advocacy group that promotes false allegations of election fraud, in several failed lawsuits that questioned the presidential election outcome in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

James Bopp claimed, without evidence, that proactively mailing ballots to registered voters would lead to voter fraud.

In 2021, James Bopp was the lead counsel for a group of eight Indiana University students who sued the university over its requirement that all students and employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, except students and employees who had a religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.

James Bopp is particularly known for his opposition to all forms of limits on money in politics and his role as counsel for groups seeking to strike down campaign-finance limitations.

James Bopp describing himself as launching a "ten-year plan" to invalidate campaign finance regulations.

In McCutcheon v Federal Election Commission, Bopp successfully represented McCutcheon.

In 2011 in Susan B Anthony List v Driehaus, Bopp successfully defended the Susan B Anthony List against a defamation lawsuit by Steve Driehaus, a former Democratic congressman who claimed that the SBA List had made false statements regarding taxpayer funding of abortion in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In Citizens United v Federal Election Commission, Bopp represented Citizens United, drafting the complaint and handling the early stages of the litigation.

James Bopp did not argue the case in the Supreme Court in 2009, having been replaced by Ted Olson.

In Wisconsin Judicial Commission v Gableman, Bopp successfully represented Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in a case alleging he broke the Wisconsin Judicial Code of Conduct during his successful run for the state supreme court.

In Kurita v Tennessee Democratic Party, Bopp represented former State Senator Rosalind Kurita, a Democrat, in her suit against the Tennessee Democratic Party for removing her as the Democratic nominee in her State Senate district after she had won the primary.

In Western Tradition Partnership, Inc v Montana, Bopp represented party challenging Montana's ban on corporate independent expenditures.

In Doe v Reed, Bopp delivered oral argument to the US Supreme Court, arguing that Washington state's disclosure of signatures on a ballot initiative petition violate the First Amendment; the Court rejected this argument.

In Randall v Sorrell, Bopp argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of Vermont Right-to-Life Committee, Vermont Republican Party, and American Civil Liberties Union in a successful challenge to Vermont's stringent spending and contribution limits.

In Federal Election Commission v Beaumont, Bopp represented North Carolina Right to Life, Inc.

In McConnell v FEC, Bopp represented the challengers in a suit challenging the constitutionality of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ; the challenge was largely unsuccessful, as the court upheld most BCRA provisions as constitutional, but the Supreme Court subsequently gutted one of the two key provisions of McCain-Feingold a few years later in FEC v Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc, in which Bopp represented the challengers.

James Bopp represented a group of plaintiffs, including Senator Rand Paul, Republicans Overseas, and current and former US citizens living in foreign countries, in a legal challenge to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act filed in 2015.

James Bopp is representing Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Madison Cawthorn in separate lawsuits that are attempting to disqualify them from office on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.