Paul Clement, who served as solicitor general during the George W. Bush administration, won a major Second Amendment case on behalf of a National Rifle Association affiliate Thursday.
Hours later, he was no longer at his law firm.
After the Supreme Court ruled, Clement’s now-former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, announced in a news release that it will “no longer represent clients with respect to matters involving the interpretation of the Second Amendment.”
Clement and Erin Murphy, a top litigator in her own right, responded by leaving.
The news will come as a surprise to the insular world of appellate litigation,
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