{"id":1528501,"date":"2022-06-25T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528501"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:34:14","slug":"attorneys-who-won-supreme-court-gun-case-forced-to-quit-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorneys-who-won-supreme-court-gun-case-forced-to-quit-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys Who Won Supreme Court Gun Case Forced To Quit Law Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fattorneys-who-won-supreme-court-gun-case-forced-to-quit-law-firm%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The lawyers who won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-scotus-strikes-down-new-york-concealed-carry-restrictions-restrictions\">major Second Amendment case<\/a> before the U.S. Supreme Court this week got even less than a pat on the back from the white-shoe law firm they work for \u2013 they were forced to quit.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Clement\u00a0and\u00a0Erin Murphy, the lawyers who successfully argued against New York\u2019s law restricting conceal-carry gun permits, were told by Kirkland &#038; Ellis they had to stop representing Second Amendment plaintiffs or find another firm. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/2nd-amendment-bruen-new-york-gun-case-supreme-court-decision-kirkland-and-ellis-rule-of-law-constitution-11656017031\">Wall Street Journal article<\/a>, the duo explained how their celebration was cut short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving just secured a landmark decision vindicating our clients\u2019 constitutional Second Amendment rights in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-deeply-troubled-over-supreme-court-ruling-upholding-second-amendment\">New York State Rifle &#038; Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0we were presented with a stark choice\u2014withdraw from representing them or withdraw from the firm,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThere was only one choice: We couldn\u2019t abandon our clients simply because their positions are unpopular in some circles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations!? Lawyers Paul Clement and Erin Murphy, who won Thursday&#8217;s concealed-weapons case, leave Kirkland &#038; Ellis after firm said it wouldn\u2019t take any more Second Amendment clients <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/shGkbI1yQL\">https:\/\/t.co\/shGkbI1yQL<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jess Bravin (@JessBravin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessBravin\/status\/1540154957864865792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pair struck a blow for gun rights when the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that New York\u2019s restrictions on gun permits violated the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. The decision was widely viewed as the widest expansion of gun rights in more than a decade, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/supreme-court-strikes-down-new-york-law-on-concealed-weapons-11655995248?mod=hp_lead_pos1\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The case revolved around a 1911 New York state law that made\u00a0the right to a concealed carry permit contingent on demonstrating \u201cgood moral character\u201d and \u201cproper cause.\u201d In the majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that New Yorkers could not be required to show why they must demonstrate a need to exercise a Constitutional right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know of no other constitutional right that an individual may exercise only after demonstrating to government officers some special need,\u201d Thomas write. \u201cThat is not how the First Amendment works when it comes to unpopular speech or the free exercise of religion. It is not how the Sixth Amendment works when it comes to a defendant\u2019s right to confront the witnesses against him. And it is not how the Second Amendment works when it comes to public carry for self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision has implications for at least eight other so-called \u201cmay issue\u201d states, where bureaucrats have the final say in whether a citizen merits a permit. In New York, the law was used to render concealed carry handgun permits nearly impossible to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>Clement, who served as the U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush, and Murphy, also an experienced appellate attorney, were partners in the firm. But they wrote that they were resigned to leaving after being told they can\u2019t take on Second Amendment cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the first time we have left a firm to stick by a client,\u201d they wrote. \u201cWhat makes this circumstance different is that the firm approved our representation of these clients years ago, and dropping them would cost the clients years of institutional memory. More remarkable still, in one of the cases we were asked to drop, we prevailed in the Supreme Court on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyers who won a major Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court this week got even less than a pat on the back from the white-shoe law firm they work for \u2013 they were forced to quit. Paul Clement\u00a0and\u00a0Erin Murphy, the lawyers who successfully argued against New York\u2019s law restricting conceal-carry gun permits, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1528509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}