Former attorneys in Pennsylvania pulled out of a federal lawsuit Friday.
President Donald Trump has set up Rudy Giuliani to lead the legal effort he has raised to resume his failed bid for a second term in office, following a series of court defeats on Friday, two sources told ABC News. Was.
Giuliani’s spokesman has confirmed his expanded role for the presidency.
The decision was first reported by the New York Times after a lawsuit was filed by a law firm handling some of the Trump campaign’s legal efforts. K Street firm Porter Wright Morris and Arthur’s lawyers have called for Trump’s campaign in Pennsylvania to withdraw from a federal lawsuit filed to challenge the election results there.
Biden has a lead of over 59,500 votes in Pennsylvania. On Friday, the Trump campaign faced adverse judgments in six state cases – judgments that determined the 8,921 votes that Trump’s legal team fought would not be cast.
Giulia has been the public face of the president’s legal campaign since election day. He has headlined a series of press conferences claiming without support that Trump’s election has been marred by fraudulent election fraud, despite evidence against him being weak in court.
The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
An actual payroll on the legal filings released on Friday will be withdrawn from the day-to-day operations it handles.
“Ronald L. Hicks, Jr., Caroline B. McGee, and Porter Wright Morris and Arthur LLP (collectively” Porter Wright “) are withdrawing their appearances as plaintiff’s counsel,” says Filing, Linda A. Cairns, Philadelphia. Based attorneys, this will be the case.
The announcement comes as progressive groups and law firms in Washington and Washington have announced their opposition to the president’s legal challenge to the election.
“The plaintiff and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that the wives will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws, and other counsel such as the existing co-counsel and the plaintiff may choose to represent the plaintiff in this case.”
Porter Wright filed a preliminary complaint in federal court earlier this week.
Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice, a bipartisan body of law and public policy, said: “This was not the proper use of the court system,” Wendy Weiser of the Brennan Center for Justice, a bipartisan law and public policy organization, told ABC News.
