If hating Porter Wright is wrong, I don’t want to be right
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Porter Wright is the latest rat to at least partially leave Donald Trump’s COVID-grounded cruiseliner:
The firm’s withdrawal followed an article in The New York Times on Monday that described internal tensions at the firm about its work for Mr. Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania. Some employees said they were concerned that the firm was being used to undercut the integrity of the electoral process. One Porter Wright lawyer resigned in protest over the summer.
“Cancel Culture has finally reached the courtroom,” said Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director. “Leftist mobs descended upon some of the lawyers representing the president’s campaign and they buckled.” He added that Mr. Trump’s team “is undeterred” and would continue its litigation.
Boo hoo hoo hoo, although as we will return to later today it’s hard to blame them for retreating to the Sarah Palin First Amendment when a Supreme Court justice has just made the same move.
One suspects, however, it’s not so much that they’ve lost belief in the mission of overturning the will of the American electorate or are even worried about public criticism per se as because of this revelation:
Prominent lawyers at Porter Wright have donated to the Trump campaign, according to federal election records.
One partner, Jeremy A. Mercer, spoke at a Trump campaign news conference in Pennsylvania last week. Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, introduced Mr. Mercer as a volunteer election observer who had been “obstructed in a horrible way.” Mr. Mercer added, “We’re there, supposedly observing, but we can’t see.”
Neither mentioned that Mr. Mercer was a lawyer at the firm that was representing Mr. Trump’s campaign. Reached on Friday, Mr. Mercer declined to comment.
If this doesn’t pique the interest of the Pennsylvania bar association, I’m not sure what will.
Meanwhile, to move a little higher in the BigLaw hierarchy:
UPDATE TWO: A top lawyer at Jones Day defended the firm's work in a call with colleagues, but said other law firms alleging voter fraud were engaged in "unprincipled advocacy." We also got a hold of an angry email from a Jones Day lawyer to his colleagues:https://t.co/tLuTdIyugf pic.twitter.com/lDSkwAPYa2— Rachel C. Abrams (@RachelAbramsNY) November 13, 2020
LOL at the idea that there’s a respectable, principled side to Donald Trump’s electoral theft operation. It’s all the same scam, and getting Sam Alito or Bart O’Kavanaugh to bless whatever ad hoc bullshit you’ve come up with most certainly doesn’t change that.