Lincoln Project will target Jones Day law firm (Trump's, to overturn the election) for punishment

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/10/inside-lincoln-projects-new-campaign-targeting-trumps-law-firm/

And then there’s Jones Day, the big law firm that is representing Trump as his campaign prepares to unleash a legal war designed to overturn the election results. The firm’s role is drawing new scrutiny, and it’s making lawyers at the firm mighty uncomfortable.

The Lincoln Project is set to launch a multi-platform campaign hammering Jones Day and other firms for their role in facilitating Trump’s efforts, I’m told. It includes TV and digital ads and social media highlighting the damage that enabling Trump threatens to our democracy and to the success of the presidential transition.

“These people have now decided that attempting to undermine the outcome of a just and fair election is perfectly acceptable for their legal practices,” Rick Wilson, a GOP strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, told me, in a reference to Jones Day and other firms representing Trump and the GOP.

Wilson said the Lincoln Project will “bring a light on that,” noting that such efforts help Trump in “waging lawfare against the American people.”

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Fuck with the "will of the people", the people will revolt.

MORE people voted for Biden than for Trump. Still too many people.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. I'd like to see some of this from our side

Also.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. I won't be apologizing, ever, for loving the Lincoln Project.

[Ms. Toad]

4. I hope the ads have the right focus.

Many of these lawsuits don't pass the laugh test - a level that should subject the attorneys to Rule 11 sanctions (penalties imposed for bringing frivolous lawsuits, among other things). Those are appropriate for condemnation.

What shouldn't happen is ridiculing the firm merely for having Trump/RNC as a client. We move into dangerous territory when we condemn a law firm based on who its client is, rather than on how it conducts itself. There are lots of people and causes on the left - or people committed of heinous crimes, who might not have competent counsel if we let popular opinion decide who is entitled to competent legal counsel.

[windje]

5. IIRC Don McGahn's a partner there n/t

[soothsayer]

6. Drag 'em!