Trump campaign lawyers can't quit workplace discrimination case for now, judge rules

• A New York federal judge rejected — for now, at least — a request by a law firm to withdraw from representing the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in a discrimination lawsuit.
• The suit was filed by former Trump campaign advisor Arlene "A.J." Delgado.
• Delgado says she was stripped of her job responsibilities and blocked from a White House post after revealing to campaign officials that she was pregnant in 2016 by senior Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller.

A New York federal judge on Thursday rejected — for now, at least — a request by a law firm to withdraw from representing the presidential campaign of Donald Trump in a discrimination lawsuit by former 2016 campaign advisor Arlene "A.J." Delgado.

But Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker gave the law firm — LaRocca, Hornik, Greenberg, Kittredge, Carlin & McPartland — until Tuesday to submit to her "a more detailed explanation" of its argument that a "irreparable breakdown" of its relationship with the Trump campaign required the firm to withdraw from representing it in the case.

Parker's ruling came a day after she held a closed-door meeting with lawyers from the firm and with their clients to discuss the withdrawal request.

"In this case, defense counsel's declaration is insufficient to grant withdrawal at this time," Parker wrote in her order Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. "By May 7, 2024, defense counsel shall submit a more detailed declaration setting forth the basis for the deterioration in the attorney-client relationship sufficient for the Court to evaluate the motion."

Parker said that LaRocca, Hornik would submit its detailed explanation of the withdrawal request without informing Delgado of its contents to "protect attorney-client privilege."

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