Law Firm Bails on Boehner's Lawsuit

September 19, 2014
Blog Post
"We knew that Speaker Boehner's $500-per-hour taxpayer-funded lawsuit was unpopular with the American people," said Drew Hammill, spokesman for Leader Pelosi.  "Now, we know it's just bad business."

You read the headline right.  According to POLITICO:

House Republicans have replaced the firm managing their lawsuit against President Barack Obama for alleged abuses of executive authority after the first attorney backed out of the contract...House Administration Committee Chairwoman Candice Miller (R-Mich.) signed a new contract on Friday with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart's William Burck after David Rivkin, an attorney with Baker & Hostetler, pulled out from the case.

Burck is a former special counsel President George W. Bush and served as outside counsel for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the panel's lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder.

And, the Washington Examiner states:

A House Republican source familiar with the Obamacare lawsuit said that the attorney originally retained to represent the House, David Rivkin, backed out because his firm, BakerHostetler, was under political pressure from other clients to drop the case.

Mr. Speaker, rather solidifying the pathway for impeachment by hiring a new law firm, listen to the American people who show no "appetite for a Republican push to sue President Barack Obama."  Stop suing for "any damn reason at all."