Kellyanne Conway, his wife, announced her departure from the White House the same day as well.
On August 23, 2020, he announced that he would be taking a leave from the Lincoln Project in order to devote more time to his family. The group released its first video on Janucalled "The MAGA Church" it warns evangelicals to beware of false prophets. Its detailed aim is "persuading enough disaffected conservatives, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts to help ensure a victory in the Electoral College, and congressional majorities that don't enable or abet Mr. Ĭonway is a founding member and advisor of the Lincoln Project, a conservative Super PAC formed in December 2019 and dedicated to "Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box". The New York Times reported that the group was "urging their fellow conservatives to speak up about what they say are the Trump administration's betrayals of bedrock legal norms". The group was composed of more than a dozen members of the conservative-libertarian Federalist Society, which had been instrumental in selecting candidates for the Trump administration to appoint to federal courts. In November 2018, Conway organized a group called Checks and Balances. Conway and Katyal argued that it was a mistake to try to use the FVRA to override the explicit wording of the Constitution, which requires Senate approval of all appointees who answer directly to the president. Trump relied on the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA), which allows the president to make interim appointments, to appoint Whitaker. On November 9, 2018, Conway and Neal Katyal wrote an op-ed in the New York Times challenging the constitutionality of Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general following the termination of Jeff Sessions. On November 16, 2018, Conway stated that a reason he did not join the Trump administration was because it was "like a shitshow in a dumpster fire". However, on June 2, 2017, Conway announced that he declined to pursue the post. On March 17, 2017, it was reported that he would be nominated to run the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. The job eventually went to Noel Francisco. In January 2017, he was considered for the post of Solicitor General. Ĭonway has been considered for some United States Department of Justice posts. Conway won the case, which was decided by an 8–0 vote the opinion was written by Justice Antonin Scalia. On March 29, 2010, Conway argued the securities case of Morrison v. During the representation of Jones, he worked closely with Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge. Ĭonway was one of the attorneys who represented Paula Jones in her lawsuit against U.S. His practice focused on litigation involving securities, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and antitrust. He was named a partner of the firm in the Litigation Department in January 1994. In September 1988, Conway joined the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. In 19, Conway served as a law clerk to Judge Ralph K.
Three years later, he obtained his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and president of the school's chapter of the Federalist Society. In 1984, Conway graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in biochemistry, where William A. Conway grew up outside of Boston and graduated from Marlborough High School in Marlborough, Massachusetts. His mother was an organic chemist from the Philippines. George Conway's father, an electrical engineer, worked for defense contractor Raytheon.