On Wednesday, Popular Information exposed the corporate clients of Porter Wright, a prominent law firm assisting the Trump campaign's scorched-earth legal strategy to reverse the results of the 2020 election. Late Thursday, Porter Wright "abruptly withdrew from a federal lawsuit that it had filed on behalf of the campaign" in Pennsylvania. The decision was "especially remarkable" because Porter Wright had filed the federal lawsuit only a few days earlier.
The Trump campaign was not happy. "Leftist mobs descended upon some of the lawyers representing the president’s campaign and they buckled," Tim Murtaugh, the campaign's communications director, said in a statement.
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The other major law firm scrutinized in Popular Information's reporting, Jones Day, said it would "not get involved in additional litigation in this election." But it continues to represent the Pennsylvania GOP in a case challenging thousands of absentee ballots. And some Jones Day lawyers are agitating for stronger action. "I believe the question is whether this firm should lend its prestige and credibility to the project of an administration bent on undermining our democracy and our rule of law," Parker A. Rider-Longmaid, a Jones Day attorney, wrote in an email to colleagues.
