As postelection litigation rages in multiple battleground states, lawyers representing President Donald Trump include big and small names. Several lawyers withdrew after reporting pressure from anti-Trump activists that included posting the lawyers’ names and contact information on social media.
Those sanctioned include Powell, L Lin Wood and seven other lawyers who were part of the lawsuit filed on behalf of six Republican voters after Joe Biden’s victory. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
3. Jesse R. Binnall “Donald Trump won … after you account for the fraud and irregularities that occurred,” Jesse Binnall, who is representing the Trump campaign in Nevada, said Tuesday. Binnall, 41, normally practices law in Alexandria, Virginia, outside Washington, and is experienced in political cases.
William S. Consovoy William Consovoy, who has experience arguing before the Supreme Court, represented Trump in recent New York state court cases. Consovoy, 46, works primarily on appellate cases.
Clark was deputy national political director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, then became director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House after the New York developer was elected president.
He returned to New York in 1977 to go into private practice, but in 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed him as associate attorney general, the No. 3 position in the Justice Department. In 1983, Reagan appointed Giuliani as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
After Santorum won in 1994, Scaringi became his legislative correspondent in Washington. Scaringi returned to Pennsylvania to work for Mike Fisher’s campaign for state attorney general, and served as an executive assistant to Fisher as attorney general from 1997 to 2001.
Clark did accounting work for Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, NPR reported, on his path to taking the role of deputy campaign manager and senior counsel on the Trump 2020 reelection campaign. Clark, 45, grew up as a centrist Democrat in Connecticut.
While still working for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, he attended Widener University Delaware Law School in 2001. In 2016, Scaringi was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He writes a biweekly column for The Patriot-News/PennLive and was a talk radio host in Harrisburg.