Knoxville, Tennessee -- December 19, 2025 -- Elliott Schuchardt, a candidate for the Tennessee General Assembly, says that the United States needs to prepare for a drop in the value of the dollar.
Schuchardt points to data showing that foreign countries are selling their holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds, and purchasing gold instead.
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Knoxville, Tennessee – December 15,
2025 – Elliott Schuchardt, a candidate for the
Tennessee General Assembly, is calling for reform of the state’s law for
election of judges.
In Tennessee, to be qualified to run as a judge, a candidate must
be authorized to practice law in the state of Tennessee.
Schuchardt has filed a lawsuit that challenges the state’s
requirement that judicial candidates be lawyers.
Schuchardt says that Tennessee does not use due process in deciding who
can practice law in the state. According to the complaint, the Tennessee
Supreme Court has held that it can suspend a lawyer’s license without
considering any evidence against the lawyer. Schuchardt says that this
system is arbitrary, and is being used for political purposes.
Schuchardt has a list of more than fifty candidates attacked by the
Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, in recent years. Many of
these people were running against sitting judges. Others were running for
higher office. According to Schuchardt, there is an appearance that the
Board is filing cases against lawyers to disqualify them from office.
The Board has filed ethics cases against two candidates for President of
the United States, two candidates for governor of Tennessee, a former clerk for
the U.S. Supreme Court, and two presidents of their county bar associations.
“These are the kind of people that we would want to run for office,” he
says. “However, the Tennessee ethics board is working to keep them off
the ballot," he says.
The Tennessee ethics board has also filed ethics cases against a number
of prominent African-American attorneys. For example, in 2024, the Board
publicly censured the president of the Nashville chapter of the NAACP, Sheryl
D. Guinn. Guinn twice ran for office as General Sessions Judge in
Davidson County, Tennessee. The board has also attacked the law license
of African-American candidate, Terry Renease Clayton. In 2015, Clayton
was a candidate for the Nashville City Council. Since then, he has twice
run for the office of State Representative.
According to Schuchardt, nearly a dozen attorneys have sued the Board or
its employees, alleging harassment for political reasons. For example,
attorney David Danner alleged that the Board retaliated against his license to
practice law, after he published an opinion in the Nashville City Paper
criticizing the state's system for selecting judges. Attorney Carol Dawn
Deaner claimed the Board retaliated against her law license, after she
criticized Tennessee's system for selecting court-appointed counsel.
Schuchardt’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle
District of Tennessee, says that Schuchardt has been a victim of political
misconduct at the board. The complaint says that the chief lawyer at the
board – Sandra Garrett -- has filed seven petitions against Schuchardt, to
interfere with Schuchardt’s representation of a lawsuit against a group of
court insiders. The complaint alleges that Garrett is using her state office to
interfere with Schuchardt’s constitutional right to due process. According
to Schuchardt, the Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to allow him to present
evidence, in connection with the board’s attacks on his license and
reputation.
Schuchardt has asked the federal court in Nashville to find Tennessee’s
election law for judges to be unconstitutional, given the lack of due process
in the state’s ethics law. Schuchardt points to numerous problems
with the ethics law. Under existing law, he says, the state is permitted
to choose the fact-finder from members of its own organization. "It
is impossible," he says, "to get a fair trial in an ethics case when
your adversary gets to appoint the trial court judge." Schuchardt
says that the fact finder should be an elected judge, or a panel of persons who
are not affiliated with the system.
According to Schuchardt, there is a precedent for this type of
system. In the early 1970s, there were complaints that the Knox County
Sheriff's Office was firing people for political reasons. Knox County,
Tennessee adopted a system to review employment-related decisions. Today,
the Knox County Merits Board is made up entirely of persons who are not affiliated with the
sheriff's office. "We need a similar system for looking at lawyer
ethics cases in Tennessee," he says. "If a majority of the
persons on a hearing panel were non-lawyers," he says, "then we would
get better decisions from the panels."
Schuchardt also objects to the state's "fee-shifting" rule, in
ethics cases. Tennessee has a rule that requires an attorney to pay the
state's legal fees, in an ethics case. According to Schuchardt, this can
result in a judgment of tens of thousands of dollars, against the defending
attorney. "The existing law is not fair," he says. "It is
designed to discourage lawyers from defending their law license, against court
insiders," he argues. "If we want the facts to come out, then
we should not penalize attorneys for presenting the evidence," he
says.
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Elliott J. Schuchardt is a candidate for the Tennessee General Assembly
in the August 2026 election. Schuchardt is the author of America’s Achilles Heel: How to Protect Your
Family When America Loses the Reserve Currency.
Schuchardt studied government at Cornell University and Oxford
University. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Schuchardt practiced law for nearly thirty years, before running for
office. He focused his legal practice on civil liberties issues in
the courts.
CONTACT:
Elliott J.
Schuchardt
2322 Jockey Run
Trail
Knoxville, TN
37920
Call or Text:
(865) 304-4374
E-mail:
elliott016@gmail.com
Twitter or
X: https://x.com/EJSchuchardt
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Knoxville, Tennessee –
December 12, 2025 -- Elliott Schuchardt, a retired lawyer, is preparing a
run for the Tennessee General Assembly in the August 2026 primary. His campaign
centers on an unconventional platform: warning
about what he sees as an impending collapse of the U.S. dollar's reserve
currency status.
Schuchardt's legal career
includes some high-profile wins. He sued the federal government to enforce
Fourth Amendment protections, in a case alleging the illegal collection of
e-mail. He also secured the injunction that kept Sweet Briar College open when
the Virginia liberal arts school attempted to close in 2015. The college's
rescue became a national story about alumni activism and institutional
preservation.
But it's his economic
concerns that define his political
campaign for the Tennessee legislature. Schuchardt authored "America's
Achilles Heel: How to Protect Your Family When America Loses the Reserve
Currency," a book that outlines his theories about American economic
vulnerability. The premise is stark: the dollar's global dominance is fragile,
and families need to prepare for its decline.
From Courtroom to
Campaign Trail
Before attending Columbia
Law School, Schuchardt studied political theory at Oxford University, in
England. Schuchardt brings an academic framework to his views on the economy.
His approach is openly preventive rather than reactive. He is trying to address
what he considers a foreseeable crisis before it arrives.
Schuchardt argues that the
United States will have to devalue the dollar to remain competitive in the
world's economy. He says that this can, and should be done, in a structured
manner, with the cooperation of other world powers. He says that if the United
States fails to address the dollar issue, the rest of the world will address
the issue for the United States, potentially causing an uncontrolled drop in
the value of the dollar.
For Tennessee voters
accustomed to traditional campaign platforms focused on taxes, education, and
healthcare, Schuchardt's focus on monetary policy and reserve currency status
represents a departure. He's positioning himself as someone willing to think outside
conventional political boundaries.
A Screenplay as
Political Warning
Schuchardt has taken his
concerns beyond books and the political campaign by writing a screenplay that dramatizes an 80%
dollar collapse. He's actively seeking investors to produce the film, which he
envisions as a modern warning comparable to Cold War-era cautionary films like
"On the Beach," "Dr. Strangelove," and "The
Day After."
Those films used dramatic
storytelling to make abstract nuclear threats feel immediate and real to
American audiences. Schuchardt is attempting something similar with economic
catastrophe, trying to make monetary policy emotionally resonant through narrative.
Whether Tennessee voters
will embrace a candidate focused on the reserve currency remains to be seen.
The August 2026 primary is still well ahead, giving Schuchardt time to make his
case. His background in constitutional law and his willingness to challenge
government power could resonate in a state with strong libertarian and
conservative currents.
For now, Schuchardt's bid for the Tennessee
General Assembly represents a test of whether voters are willing to embrace
a proactive approach on the dollar. Schuchardt believes the answer is yes. The
United States voted for tariffs in 2024, as a means to protect the economy. He
believes the nation is ready for the next step, in getting the economy on the
right track.
For further information:
Elect Elliott Schuchardt
2322 Jockey Run Trail
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: (865) 304-4374
E-mail: elliott016@gmail.com
Campaign website: www.elect-schuchardt.com
Campaign blog: www.elliottschuchardt.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://x.com/EJSchuchardt
Book website: www.elliott-author.com
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Knoxville,
Tennessee – December 3, 2025 – Elliott Schuchardt, a candidate for the Tennessee General Assembly, says that Tennessee should elect its attorney
general, rather than appoint the position. This would be a change in the
law.
Tennessee uses a unique method for choosing the state’s attorney general. The state Supreme Court chooses the attorney general for an eight-year term.
We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Elliott Schuchardt, and ask him a few questions. The interview went as follows.