Trump campaign lawyer asks to withdraw over Capitol Hill ‘crime’
Erik Larson
A lawyer who represents President Donald Trump’s campaign in one of several defunct election lawsuits in Pennsylvania asked a federal judge for permission to withdraw from the case, saying he now thinks the suit helped “perpetrate a crime” – a reference to Wednesday’s chaos in Washington.
In a filing Thursday, lawyer Jerome Marcus told U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia that he has a “fundamental disagreement” with his client, who he said “insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant.”
“I believe that the filing of that and other cases was used by President Trump yesterday to incite people to violence,” Marcus said in the email. “I refer specifically to his urging people to come to Washington for a wild’ protest.”
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Trump is finding out that justices are fiercely independent
Despite the politicization of court confirmations, justices reliably follow the law rather than party politics.
By Talmage Boston
As the president has continued to make allegations of “voter fraud” and an “illegal election,” thus far, whenever his lawyers have presented their arguments to federal trial judges and appellate justices, the judicial response has largely been to reject them, culminating with the Supreme Court rejecting his bid to overturn the election.
Of particular significance is how many of the rejections have come from members of the judiciary nominated by Republican presidents, including some chosen by Donald Trump himself and whom many Democratic senators voted against in the confirmation process.