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(Reuters) – A law firm representing Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign to challenge US election results in Pennsylvania has withdrawn from at least one of the cases challenging ballots in the battlefield state.
Democrat Joe Biden took office Saturday, in part thanks to a victory in Pennsylvania. Trump has refused to budge and has repeatedly claimed, without proof, that there was widespread electoral fraud.
In a court filing Thursday, attorneys for Porter Wright Morris & Arthur said they had agreed that their clients, the campaign and two registered voters, “will be better served if Porter Wright retires.”
The campaign is in the process of hiring a new attorney, Porter Wright said in the filing before US District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
The lawsuit, filed Sunday in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleges that the state’s vote-by-mail system “lacked all of the transparency and verifiability stamps that were present for in-person voters.”
“We have committed to the court to meet our obligations as required to ensure the transition to a substitute attorney and not to cause a material adverse effect on the client’s interests. We will have no further comment,” Porter Wright said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Faced with criticism of his campaign work from some Democrats and The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican group, Porter Wright said Wednesday that he has a “long history” of bipartisan election work that “asks us to take over. controversies cases. “
The Trump campaign has filed a series of lawsuits, part of a broader strategy to try to reverse the election results in key states.
Porter Wright’s withdrawal came after Jones Day, Trump’s external campaign adviser, said Tuesday that he does not represent the president or his campaign in “any litigation alleging voter fraud” or litigation seeking to annul the election. Americans.
Another firm, Snell & Wilmer, withdrew from a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Arizona’s Maricopa County incorrectly rejected some votes cast on Election Day Nov. 3. The firm said it does not comment on client matters.
(Reporting by David Thomas; Editing by David Bario, Noeleen Walder and Jonathan Oatis)
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