January 11, 20219:55 am
Jerome Marcus, an attorney for Donald Trump in a lawsuit seeking to overturn election results in Pennsylvania, has asked to quit the ongoing case. Alternet reports via Salon:
In Philadelphia, one of the cities where President Donald Trump’s legal team has been making baseless and debunked claims of widespread voter fraud, Trump campaign attorney Jerome Marcus has asked to withdraw from one of the campaign’s Pennsylvania-related election lawsuits.
On Thursday in Philadelphia, Marcus told U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond his client “used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists on taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”
A Pennsylvania attorney representing President Donald Trump in one of his election-related lawsuits asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday to allow him to wit.
Trump campaign Pennsylvania attorney quits; says Trump used his services to perpetrate a crime
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President Donald Trump waves while walking away after speaking to the media, as he walks to the Marine One helicopter Friday, May 25, 2018, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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The attorney representing the Trump campaign in their ongoing Pennslyvania post-election lawsuit has asked the federal court to let him withdraw from the case.
In his letter to the court, Jerome Marcus said âthe client (Trump) has used the lawyerâs (Marcus) services to perpetrate a crimeâ in promoting the protests and resulting violence on Wednesday, according to