Jones Day becomes involved in RNC election litigation after declining to advise Trump campaign
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Jones Day gets involved in election litigation for RNC after declining to advise Trump campaign
October 31, 2024, 9:15 am CDT
Jones Day is no longer advising the Trump campaign, but the law firm is staying involved in election litigation. (Photo from Shutterstock)
Jones Day is no longer advising the Trump campaign, but the law firm is staying involved in election litigation.
Jones Day “is edging its way into the legal fight to send [former President] Donald Trump back to the White House, even after the powerful Washington firm distanced itself from the former president,” Bloomberg Law reports.
Jones Day represents the Republican National Committee in several cases, including a bid to stop Pennsylvania from counting provisional ballots cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified because they weren’t sealed in inner secrecy envelopes.
Jones Day partner John Gore, who was the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in the Trump administration, is leading the lawyers in the Pennsylvania case. Bloomberg Law and SCOTUSblog report that their brief asks the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily to block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling requiring the ballots to be counted. The case is Republican National Committee v. Genser.
Another firm involved in the Supreme Court emergency-stay application is the Gallagher Firm, formed by election lawyer Kathleen Gallagher after her previous firm, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, stopped representing the Trump campaign.
Also representing the RNC is Dickinson Wright, which is involved in Michigan litigation over overseas voters, Bloomberg Law reports. Consovoy McCarthy and Dhillon Law Group are also handling RNC work.
