⁍ President Donald Trump’s campaign is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers to litigate voting by mail.

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⁍ The campaign paid more than $250,000 to Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, the law firm representing it in lawsuits over the use of drop boxes.

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⁍ In the Nov. 3 elections, more voters are expected to cast their ballots by mail instead of in person because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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– With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, President Trump’s campaign is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to stop voters from casting ballots by mail, Reuters reports. According to Federal Election Commission data, the Trump campaign paid more than $250,000 to Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, the law firm representing it in lawsuits over the use of drop boxes and other changes to Pennsylvania’s mail-balloting procedures. More than 200 election-related lawsuits have been filed, many of them focusing on mail-in ballots, which Democrats are more likely to use. Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled on Sept. 17 that state officials can accept mail-in ballots up to three days after Nov. 3, as long as they were mailed by Election Day. Pennsylvania Republicans indicated in court filings this week that they would ask the US Supreme Court to review the case. Porter Wright represents state Republicans in that lawsuit, which was filed against Pennsylvania by the state Democratic party, and in a separate lawsuit brought by the Trump campaign in Pittsburgh federal court over mail-in voting. Porter Wright—which has most of its offices in election battleground states Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio—was in August the Trump campaign’s second-highest paid firm. The top paid firm was Jones Day, the campaign’s outside general counsel. Jones Day, which also has attorneys working on the Pennsylvania litigation, court records show, got nearly $350,000 in August, its biggest monthly payment from the Trump campaign this year.