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REUTERS: A law firm representing Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign to challenge US election results in Pennsylvania is withdrawing from at least one of the cases challenging ballots in the battlefield state.
Democrat Joe Biden took office last Saturday (November 7), thanks in part 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.”
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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.
“The President’s team is unfazed and will move forward with rock solid advocates to ensure free and fair elections for all Americans,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said in a statement.
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. “
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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 decision to step down came after Jones Day, the Trump campaign’s outside attorney, said Tuesday that he does not represent the president or his campaign in “any litigation alleging voter fraud” or litigation seeking to overturn. the American elections.
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.
