NYT reports on law firms abandoning the Trump election litigation, leading me to want to elaborate on something I tweeted a bit ago about Jones Day. 1/

I believe people deserve lawyers and so too do unpopular causes. I’d like to think in my life I have represented the latter as well as folks others might not want to represent. 2/

But in every instance I believed, savory or not, that there was a deeper principle at stake, even if it meant ensuring the unrepresented had lawyers. 3/

I view an quixotic quest to undermine the American political system as well beyond those bounds. It is the parasite that feeds off the host, ultimately destroying it. 4/

For all our flaws, we have had something representing a workable democracy, and if you can’t stand up for that you should just sit down. Or move out of the public sphere altogether. 5/

And so I think it altogether appropriate the firms are moving off the stage. And I think it is entirely unacceptable that elected Republican officials are not coming forward to recognize the election is over and we all have to move forward. 6/

That’s how it’s supposed to work, and that is how it mostly has worked in good times and bad, and the fact that 2020 is now looking like one of the least functional times is completely unacceptable. 7/

Political disagreements, yes. Disagreements about whether our political system will follow the rules, and long-established norms, no. Absolutely not. FIN/