Jenna Ellis

Jenna Ellis

Jenna Ellis is a former deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado. As a private lawyer, she has litigated cases in state courts. In 2015, she self-published The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution, a book arguing that the Constitution of the United States can only be interpreted in accordance with the Bible. In November 2020, Trump announced that Ellis was part of the legal team conducting efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.

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Summary Jenna EllisJenna Ellis is a former deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado. As a private lawyer, she has litigated cases in state courts. In 2015, she self-published The Legal Basis for a Moral Constitution, a book arguing that the Constitution of the United States can only be interpreted in accordance with the Bible. In November 2020, Trump announced that Ellis was part of the legal team conducting efforts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. She has made false and debunked allegations about rigged voting machines and polling place fraud. Ellis grew up in Colorado and was homeschooled by her parents. In 2003, she enrolled at Cedarville University, then transferred to the Colorado State University in order to study journalism. In 2011, she received a law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law. In 2017, Ellis became a writer for the Washington Examiner, where she falsely claimed to have a history of being a constitutional lawprofessor.

She also worked as an affiliate faculty member of Colorado Christian University, and later an assistant professor of legal studies, until her departure in 2018. In her tenure, Ellis taught political science and pre-law to undergraduates. The university does not have a law school. In 2016, Ellis described homosexuals as’sinners’ whose ‘conduct is vile and abominable’ Her view of the Supreme Court of the U.S. legalizing same-sex marriage, in Obergefell v. Hodges, was that it would lead to polygamy and pedophilia becoming accepted. Her views are ‘further to the right’ than most conservative Christian legal scholars, according to an expert in Christian law. Ellis was a stern critic of Donald Trump when he was vying to become the Republican nominee for president. She wrote on Facebook that Trump was ‘treacherous’ and ‘unholy’ In March 2016, she criticized Trump’s supporters, stating that they ‘don’t care about facts or logic’