Dr. Daniel Osher

Biography

Daniel Osher, an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School, also serves as deputy legal counsel to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Before joining the Whitmer administration, Osher was litigation counsel at the Elias Law Group in Washington, DC, where he gained extensive experience in litigating voting rights and election law matters at both federal and state court levels. He played a key role in the case of Allen v. Milligan (2023), which was a successful challenge under the Voting Rights Act regarding Alabama’s congressional districting map. In 2022, his team successfully challenged Georgia’s prohibition on voting during the Senate runoff election on Saturday after Thanksgiving, resulting in 70,000 voters casting ballots that day. In addition to litigating voting rights cases during the 2020 election cycle, Osher defended attempts to overturn accurate presidential election results and represented members of Congress in litigation challenging electoral victories. His work has included involvement in litigation from 2019 that prompted Mississippi to change the way it elects statewide officeholders.

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