Trump campaign lawyers fear pushing lawsuits that could undermine election: report

President TrumpDonald John TrumpPence to attend GOP Senate lunch on Tuesday Biden’s transition team to consider legal action over agency transition delays: reports Trump campaign lawyers worried about pushing lawsuits that could undermine the electionsLegal battles in battlefield states have left some lawyers at law firms representing his campaign worried they are helping to undermine the integrity of the US election, according to a New York Times report.

The newspaper interviewed several lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, companies representing the Trump campaign. According to the report, lawyers for the latter firm have held meetings to express their discomfort with what they are tasked with doing. The Times reported that a lawyer was doing all his work to protest.

Lawyers for both firms have filed four lawsuits in Pennsylvania, seeking ways to question the security of the electoral process, alleging voting irregularities in the state.

Donald F. McGahn II, a partner at Jones Day, worked as Trump’s outside attorney in 2016 and later joined his White House attorney before returning to the law firm. Jones Day lawyers would have been uncomfortable seeing McGahn so closely associated with Trump. The law firm is estimated to have made around $ 20 million since its involvement with Trump.

Jones Day’s involvement with Trump has not gone unnoticed, the Times notes. Last week, a mural titled “Jones Day, Hands Off Our Ballots” was painted on the streets outside the company’s San Francisco office.

The New York Times reported that the company had participated in about 20 lawsuits involving the president, his campaign or the Republican Party. However, the firm had to reassure its clients that their work with Trump does not impact their legal work for other lawsuits and issues.

The law firm has worked on gun control cases and has represented federally detained unaccompanied minors.

“Many of the GOP’s litigation issues are in principle meritorious,” Benjamin L. Ginsberg, former Republican electoral attorney, wrote to Jones Day in the Washington Post in September. “But the president’s inflammatory language undermines the claim that Republicans are simply seeking to maintain the statutory guarantees necessary to validate the credibility of the results.

Jones Day’s Democratic and Republican partners told The New York Times that no matter how their employees feel, the company is obligated to continue representing long-term clients.

As the newspaper notes, the law firm has represented a host of polarizing clients such as “Big Tobacco”, the Bin Laden family and Art Modell, the vilified former owner of the Cleveland Browns.