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Meet the lawyers arguing Trump's Supreme Court Colorado ballot case
Meet the lawyers arguing Trump’s Supreme Court Colorado ballot case
By Ann E. Marimow
February 7, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EST
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Photos of attorneys Jason Murray, left and Jonathan Mitchell, right. (Murry Photo Provided by Olson and Grimsley/Mitchell Photo by Sarah McCammon/NPR)
One is a familiar face at the Supreme Court and a former Texas solicitor general. The other is appearing before the high court for the first time. Both have experience as law clerks to Supreme Court justices. ... Jonathan Mitchell, the Texas lawyer, is representing Donald Trump on Thursday as he asks the justices to toss a ruling from Colorado’s high court disqualifying the former president from returning to the White House because of his actions before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Jason Murray, the lead attorney for the Colorado voters behind the lawsuit, is deeply familiar with the historical record in the case after handling part of the argument before the Colorado Supreme Court. ... Murray’s Denver-based law firm, a small national public-interest firm with a bench of experienced former Supreme Court law clerks, opened just six months ago. The firm filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Colorado voters the next day. ... Before joining the firm, Murray spent 11 years as a trial lawyer. He was a law clerk for Justice Elena Kagan, a liberal, at the U.S. Supreme Court and for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a conservative, during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
In 2017, Murray wrote an opinion piece in support of Trump’s nomination of Gorsuch. He emphasized the similarities between his two former bosses despite their different politics. ... “Both Gorsuch and Kagan consistently emphasized to us law clerks that, if we weren’t telling them when we thought their instincts on a case were wrong, we weren’t doing our jobs,” wrote Murray, a Harvard Law School graduate. “For both, the goal was to reach the correct legal result, rather than advance any political party’s agenda.”
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Jason Murray, left, attorney for the petitioners in the Colorado case, confers with a colleague before a hearing on Nov. 1 in Denver. (Jack Dempsey, Pool/AP)
Trump’s lawyer on Thursday will be Mitchell, who was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court conservative. Mitchell will be standing at the lectern before the mahogany bench for the sixth time and is scheduled to make his seventh trip later this month for a Second Amendment case, challenging a federal ban on bump stocks. ... He is perhaps best known as one of the architects of a novel Texas law that empowers private citizens, rather than state officials, to enforce abortion restrictions, by suing individuals who help women obtain abortions after about six weeks into pregnancy. The law was specifically designed to evade pre-enforcement challenges in federal court. ... Mitchell, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and member of the conservative Federalist Society, was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School when he suggested strategies in a law review article for crafting legislation that could withstand court challenges.
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By Ann Marimow
Ann Marimow covers the Supreme Court for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2005, and has spent a decade writing about legal affairs and the federal judiciary. She previously covered state government and politics in California, New Hampshire and Maryland. Twitter https://twitter.com/amarimow
By Ann E. Marimow
February 7, 2024 at 5:00 a.m. EST
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Photos of attorneys Jason Murray, left and Jonathan Mitchell, right. (Murry Photo Provided by Olson and Grimsley/Mitchell Photo by Sarah McCammon/NPR)
One is a familiar face at the Supreme Court and a former Texas solicitor general. The other is appearing before the high court for the first time. Both have experience as law clerks to Supreme Court justices. ... Jonathan Mitchell, the Texas lawyer, is representing Donald Trump on Thursday as he asks the justices to toss a ruling from Colorado’s high court disqualifying the former president from returning to the White House because of his actions before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Jason Murray, the lead attorney for the Colorado voters behind the lawsuit, is deeply familiar with the historical record in the case after handling part of the argument before the Colorado Supreme Court. ... Murray’s Denver-based law firm, a small national public-interest firm with a bench of experienced former Supreme Court law clerks, opened just six months ago. The firm filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Colorado voters the next day. ... Before joining the firm, Murray spent 11 years as a trial lawyer. He was a law clerk for Justice Elena Kagan, a liberal, at the U.S. Supreme Court and for Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, a conservative, during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.
In 2017, Murray wrote an opinion piece in support of Trump’s nomination of Gorsuch. He emphasized the similarities between his two former bosses despite their different politics. ... “Both Gorsuch and Kagan consistently emphasized to us law clerks that, if we weren’t telling them when we thought their instincts on a case were wrong, we weren’t doing our jobs,” wrote Murray, a Harvard Law School graduate. “For both, the goal was to reach the correct legal result, rather than advance any political party’s agenda.”
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Jason Murray, left, attorney for the petitioners in the Colorado case, confers with a colleague before a hearing on Nov. 1 in Denver. (Jack Dempsey, Pool/AP)
Trump’s lawyer on Thursday will be Mitchell, who was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, the late Supreme Court conservative. Mitchell will be standing at the lectern before the mahogany bench for the sixth time and is scheduled to make his seventh trip later this month for a Second Amendment case, challenging a federal ban on bump stocks. ... He is perhaps best known as one of the architects of a novel Texas law that empowers private citizens, rather than state officials, to enforce abortion restrictions, by suing individuals who help women obtain abortions after about six weeks into pregnancy. The law was specifically designed to evade pre-enforcement challenges in federal court. ... Mitchell, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and member of the conservative Federalist Society, was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School when he suggested strategies in a law review article for crafting legislation that could withstand court challenges.
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By Ann Marimow
Ann Marimow covers the Supreme Court for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2005, and has spent a decade writing about legal affairs and the federal judiciary. She previously covered state government and politics in California, New Hampshire and Maryland. Twitter https://twitter.com/amarimow
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