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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,"...

A Dominion Voting advisor sought to “coordinate” efforts to “boost” the “important work” of the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, according to John Podesta emails found on Wikileaks.As reported by Global Banking & Finance in 2018, Dominion Voting was acquired by its management team and Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm based in New York advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP.The emails show that, Kamran S. Bajwa, a partner of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, met with John Podesta in 2015 to discuss “sharing ideas” and “anything else that can help” the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.“It was a pleasure to meet...

Law firm Kirkland & Ellis withdrew from representing Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar on Friday. Trump’s lawyers have been harassed and threatened for the ‘crime’ of representing the President of the United States. Last week the anti-American hacks at The Lincoln Project doxxed and harassed two of President Trump’s Pennsylvania lawyers prompting them to withdraw from a voter fraud case. Last weekend one of President Trump’s lawyers had her life threatened after she filed a civil rights lawsuit to ensure a clean election in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns said in a Sunday night court filing that she was...

Liberal groups already enjoy a tremendous structural advantage over conservative groups in terms of foundation support, bricks and mortars institutions and a steady pipeline of youngsters eager to shape mankind to their own image. There’s another often overlooked advantage enjoyed by the left: big law firms donating thousands and thousands of hours to help leftist causes far outside of the American mainstream. There is no counterpart donation of time and money for conservative causes. Big Law’s ideological “lawfare” completes the architecture for attacks on election integrity laws, springing free Al-Qaeda terrorists and even suing conservative new media pioneers like Andrew...