The lawyer, Jerome Marcus, is calling for the withdrawal of a case in which the Trump campaign sued the Philadelphia County Electoral Council over where vote-processing observers could stay, part of Trump’s initial effort to spread false allegations that campaign observers were blocked from watching the vote count.
“The client insists on taking measures that the lawyer finds disgusting and with which the lawyer fundamentally disagrees,” Marcus wrote to the court on Thursday.
In a statement to CNN, Marcus defended the case as “fact-based”, but said that Trump used the filing and other legal processes to incite violence, referring specifically to Wednesday’s riots by pro-Trump supporters on Capitol Hill .
“I refer specifically to your request for people to come to Washington for a ‘wild’ protest,” said Marcus in his statement. “I don’t want to participate in that at all. So I asked the court to allow me to withdraw from my position as a lawyer.”
In the case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign was prosecuted on the grounds that it was being unfairly prevented from observing the election campaign in Philadelphia. But federal judge Paul Diamond, his patience clearly proven with the legal complaint, confirmed that Republican Party observers were allowed to attend.
When the judge lobbied Trump’s campaign attorney Marcus, if there were campaign observers in the room, Marcus said, “There are a non-zero number of people in the room.”