Big Law Firms Break Promise to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy

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Robert Maguire
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Some of the biggest law firms in the country promised to punish lawmakers who voted to overthrow the election, but many of those same firms have quietly started giving again.

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Big Law Firms Promised to Punish Republicans Who Voted to Overthrow Democracy. Now They're Donating...

Top firms said they'd halt donations to the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn Biden's election. Now they're back to business as usual
rollingstone.com
8:26 AM · Dec 9, 2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jan6-law-firms-insurrection-campaign-finance-1268962/

WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, some of the country’s biggest law firms joined blue-chip corporations and other industry trade groups by halting all political donations and rethinking their giving strategy altogether. In a few cases, law firms vowed they wouldn’t give money to any of the 147 Republican officeholders who had voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, riding the wave of good publicity by coming out strongly against the politicians who’d threatened American democracy.

But Big Law’s principled stand didn’t last a year.

Major law firms in Washington have resumed donations to those Republicans whose support for election-fraud theories and refusal to certify posed a grave threat to American democracy. According to a review of campaign-finance records by Rolling Stone and the clean-government groups Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), more than two-dozen major law firms have donated nearly $500,000 to members of the so-called Sedition Caucus, referring to the 147 Republican officeholders who voted to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, or to party committees that take large donations and spend those funds solely to reelect Republican politicians.

The law firms in question made the donations through their in-house political action committees. Those PACs, which employees can contribute to, allow the firm to donate to a candidate’s campaign, a party-wide political committee, or a leadership committee that prominent politicians use to raise money that they can later spend to help reelect their friends and allies.

Campaign finance experts say the firms’ decision to resume giving illustrate the hollowness of their original pledge to freeze or reassess their giving. It’s also a reflection of a broken and money-rotted political system, in which companies and law firms with business before the government use campaign donations to buy access to policymakers.

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[grumpyduck]

1. Any surprise there?

[spanone]

2. Lawyers have made out like bandits defending tfg's criminals...

money rules America

[inwiththenew]

3. Most people have quietly moved on from 1/6

Sad to say but it's hard to argue this was critical event when most people arrested are getting a slap on the wrist. The most serious sentence I've seen is more because he assaulted a police officer and he probably would have received a similar sentence regardless of where he committed the assault. The lack of serious consequences for the vast majority involved, most especially at the top, is total failure of the system.

[Tommymac]

6. Bullshit. RW talking points.

Sorry - it is the truth.

[Casady1]

4. I work with big law

and have for close to twenty years. These firms represent big business and have no ethics. They only care who pays them. I know the attorney who represented Bob McConnell( former Gov of VA). He was and is a screaming liberal. He won the case against the DOJ. I was in the room when he made the announcement. At the time we were the only 150 people who knew it in the country. McConnell paid him and he represented him.

It is also why the Supreme court decides for business. This is their background.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. +1

[onecaliberal]

8. The wealthy only care about money and power.

They don’t care about nor are they subject to laws. They can do whatever they want, including child trafficking and rape without consequences.

[empedocles]

9. Neal Katyal?