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Jones Day gets involved in election litigation for RNC after declining to advise Trump campaign

By Debra Cassens Weiss

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.

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. Their brief asked the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily block a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision requiring that the ballots be counted, according to Bloomberg Law and SCOTUSblog. 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. Other firms handling RNC work include Consovoy McCarthy and the Dhillon Law Group.

Firms working for the Democratic National Committee, on the other hand, include Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling, Law.com reports.