The lawyers who made the #Venmo transactions were: #PatrickStrawbridge, a ptnr at Consovoy McCarthy who recently successfully argued that #AffirmativeAction violated the US constitution; #KateTodd, who served as WhiteHouse dpy counsel under #Trump at the time of the payment & is now a managing party of Ellis George Cipollone’s law office; #ElbertLin, the fmr solicitor general of WV who played a key role in a #SCOTUS case that limited the #EPA’s ability to regulate #GreenhouseGasEmissions; &