In Rolling Stone, Andy Kroll reports that the pledges the nation's top law firms took—you know, those promises to stop funding Republican lawmakers who allied themselves on Jan. 6 with a seditious attempt to topple government?—have by and large met the same fate as pledges from other powerful companies and interest groups. They didn't last a year, much less a single election cycle, and a host of big-name law offices have resumed political donations to those lawmakers and to the campaign committees funding them. That means the 147 Republicans who voted to challenge the election results have already raked in nearly $500,000 in Big Law donations from over two dozen firms, reports Kroll. It turns out that attempting to erase a United States presidential election based on flat-out hoaxes—hoaxes that have now landed several of the pro-Trump «lawyers» in ethical hot water after they presented fraudulent claims to courts—is not, in fact, enough to earn permanent condemnation from the alleged top legal firms in the country. And why should it? If the next election is erased by handpicked boards Republicans have installed to do exactly that, few of the nation's top lawyers want to find themselves cut off from that coup's beneficiaries. Read more