Oh boy! There’s already a bunch of shit being piled on Jones Day for their role in enabling the legal fantasies of Donald Trump and pretending that the Supreme Court will deliver the election to Trump. And, rightly so. Not the first (or last) time Above the Law has called out the Biglaw giant, but in the grand media pond, we are relatively niche fish — we’re a bunch of former lawyers writing to an audience of practicing lawyers, after all — and it’s been great to see mainstream sources dunking on Jones Day.
And it’s about to get so much worse.
I’ve had my issues with the GOP never-Trumpers turned political action committee, the Lincoln Project, and I stand by the position that liberals should be wary of any “help” from them. But. But, well, this is going to be fun. Today, Greg Sargent at the Washington Post reports that the PAC is launching an ad campaign attacking Jones Day.
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Televised anti-Jones Day ads? You know Above the Law is here for that.
The new @ProjectLincoln campaign will also target Jones Day's clients.
“I’d like to know how General Motors justifies working with a company that’s aggressively seeking to undermine the validity of a free and fair election," @TheRickWilson tells me.https://t.co/ugh4Rhqr5u pic.twitter.com/Dnx2nFvxo7
— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) November 10, 2020
The Lincoln Project has said that they will continue to advocate for expanded voting rights and anti-voter suppression laws even in a post-Trump world. And as Sargent notes, this is part of that effort:
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“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, 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 law fare against the American people.”
Oh, and it gets better: there’re also going after Jones Day’s clients. As Wilson says, “I’d like to know how General Motors justifies working with a company that’s aggressively seeking to undermine the validity of a free and fair election.”
As I said, this is going to get fun.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).