Trump's 2020 Legal Team: Legal Hammer Lowered on Them for their Phony Election Stunts

Part of Trump's Failed 2020 Election  Legal Team 

Coverage on the following two stories (and I might add: A welcomed judicial decision) with this headline:

“Judge Orders Sanctions Against Pro-Trump Lawyers Over Election Lawsuit”

Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood, and seven other lawyers deceived federal courts and debased the judicial process, a federal judge wrote.

Introduction Extract (NY Times): A federal judge in Michigan has ordered sanctions to be levied against nine pro-Trump lawyers, including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood ruling that a lawsuit laden with conspiracy theories that they filed last year challenging the validity of the presidential election was “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”

In her decision, Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court in Detroit also ordered the lawyers to be referred to the local legal authorities in their home states for possible suspension or disbarment.

More Specifics (Bloomberg News): Judge Parker issued a 110-page ruling that rejected dozens of speculative and fact-deficient affidavits the lawyers had submitted as evidence of a conspiracy to steal the election from former Trump.

Judge Parker accused the lawyers of trying to deceive the court and the American people and said: “Sanctions are required to deter the filing of future frivolous lawsuits designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted.” 

Powell and other lawyers filed lawsuits in several states seeking to overturn the election results of November 2020, alleging widespread voter fraud that resulted in Joe Biden becoming president .

(Note: None of those proved accurate or true in any Federal or State court or vote certification).

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) and the city of Detroit had asked the court to issue sanctions and start disciplinary proceedings against the lawyers, saying they improperly used the court as a weapon to undermine faith in the election result. 

In addition to ordering the lawyers to pay the city and state’s legal fees for the case, Judge Parker also referred the matter for investigation by licensing authorities in states where the lawyers practice, for possible suspension or disbarment. She ordered the attorneys to take at least 12 hours of additional legal training, including at least six hours focused on election law, all within six months.

My 2 Cents: As I said above, this is very good and most-welcomed judicial news. 

One can only hope that appropriate courts and state agencies will levy penalties on those named attorneys. In short, they must never practice law again, at least in my view. We shall see.

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