Sara Chimene-Weiss

Counsel

Sara Chimene-Weiss serves as counsel at Protect Democracy. Her work has primarily focused on litigation and legal advocacy on behalf of clients targeted by anti-democratic disinformation and voter intimidation, as well as advocacy to protect our democracy from abuses of power and interference with free and fair elections. Sara’s past experience includes serving as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the District of Arizona’s Capital Habeas Unit, where she represented people sentenced to death, and serving as a law clerk to a federal district court judge. She is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School.

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‘2000 Mules,’ a key piece of election misinformation, has its day in court (opens a new window)

  • October 3, 2023
  • The Washington Post

“After today’s win for our client, we’ll now move into the discovery phase of the case,” Sara Chimene-Weiss of Protect Democracy said. “We’re confident we’ll soon uncover even more evidence that the Defendants fabricated, without any actual facts or underlying data, their lies about our client as part of their broader campaign to sow doubt and spread falsehoods about voters and the 2020 election.”