2020 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP CAMPAIGN: “A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.
The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created ‘an illegal two-tiered voting system’ in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court…
Unlike most lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign, which targeted small pools of votes whose exclusion would not change the election result, the Porter Wright suit in Pennsylvania challenged nearly 2.65m votes that were cast by mail, the majority by Democrats…
With that lawsuit stalled, certification in Pennsylvania – and the formal election of Joe Biden as president – drew a step closer. By law the state’s result must be certified by 23 November…
Porter Wright is representing the Trump campaign and the Republican party in other Pennsylvania lawsuits.”
-Tom McCarthy, “Trump law firm withdraws from Pennsylvania case challenging election,” the guardian.com, Nov. 13, 2020