Reuters: “A Kentucky teenager whose 2019 face-off with a Native American activist in Washington went viral has fired his lawyer, a man who played a key role in Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his election defeat, according to court notices filed on Monday. The teen, Nicholas Sandmann, terminated lawyer L. Lin Wood from the team representing him in a series of lawsuits that accuse media companies like The New York Times Inc and CBS News Inc of inaccurately portraying the stand-off at the Lincoln Memorial on the day of a large anti-abortion protest.”
“‘I have ended my lawyer-client relationship with Mr. Wood and no longer wish to be represented by him,’ Sandmann said in an affidavit included in the court filings. Wood did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a statement shared on the Telegram app on Sunday, Wood said he expected Sandmann would ‘abandon’ him because of earlier social media posts in which Wood suggested former Vice President Mike Pence engaged in ‘treason’ and could ‘face execution by firing squad’ for formally recognizing the election victory of President Joe Biden.”