Posted on 06/28/2022 12:25:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
Two lawyers who successfully argued the landmark Supreme Court case affirming a constitutional right to be armed outside the home have been forced out of their Washington, D.C., law firm.
Amid pressure from clients and other attorneys at the firm, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, no longer will handle Second Amendment cases, Politico reported.
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement and Erin Murphy, who argued successfully before the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen, said they had to resign.
"We were given a stark choice: either withdraw from ongoing representations or withdraw from the firm," Clement said in a statement reported by Politico.
"Anyone who knows us and our views regarding professional responsibility and client loyalty knows there was only one course open to us: We could not abandon ongoing representations just because a client's position is unpopular in some circles."
Kirkland spokesman Jon Ballis told Politico he hoped the firm could continue to work with the two attorneys on matters not related to guns.
The announcement of the dropping of gun cases and the resignations took place on the day the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down New York's law requiring anyone who wishes to obtain a concealed-carry permits to demonstrate a "proper purpose" to have weapons outside the home.
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There’s a whole LOT of people needing hanging. A lot.
How many of us saw “political correctness” getting to this point where people lose jobs and cancel culture is empowered, where ESG scores are enacted and tolerance is no longer tolerated?
All of us on FR.
This is disturbing and dangerous news. It’s un-American.
Leftists are total Fing scumbags.
The list just keeps growing and growing...
Hopefully these winners will form their own law firm and give their former firm a real run for the money.
I envision a national divorce as a result of unreconcilable differences. They will not respect our strongly held principles and allow us to live in peace.
Boss : now go win the case !!
( wink wink )
Employees: We Won !!!
Boss : Did you not see the wink wink ?
Your fired !
You’ll never work again !
Yes, it’s another attack on freedom.
It’s the same playbook the left used to attack the 1st Amendment actually. “Sure you have freedom of speech, but if you say something we don’t like, you’ll never work again.”
Now it’s: “Sure you have the right to petition the government for redress of grievances, but any attorney that agrees to take your case will kiss their legal career goodbye.”
As long as this strategy continues to work, the left will keep expanding it to any area where they are losing in the legislatures and courts.
I believe that Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank had this situation. After being fired, he started his own company, and in time, it drove his former employer out of business.
“They will not respect our strongly held principles and allow us to live in peace.”
They won’t let us “divorce” in peace either. Their goal is not simply to rule leftist areas (they already do), or even just to rule the USA, but to rule the world, and any portion of America remaining free is an obstacle to that goal.
Those who make peaceful change impossible…
Paul should reopen Bancroft and take advantage of this conservative Court for as long as we can keep it.
Look at the Coach Kennedy case SCOTUS decided this week that the Coach did not lose his 1st Amendment right of free exercise of religion when he became a football coach for a public high school. Did the ACLU represent him? Of course not. Can you remember the last time the ACLU took a case to vindicate the religious liberty of Americans? I can't.
I’m sure that another firm will gladly snatch up a couple of brilliant lawyers.
america has ended long time back.
even freerepublic is un-american.
I had been banned from freerepublic 18 times for expressing different opinion that pissed off mods.
What this says is that they expect their lawyers to normally under represent conservatives that are paying for legal representation from their firm. The entire firm should be disbarred.
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