Federal judge in Michigan orders pro-Trump lawyers disciplined over lawsuit seeking to overturn 2020 election
By Rosalind S. Helderman
Yesterday at 7:12 p.m. EDT
A federal judge in Michigan has ordered that Sidney Powell, L. Lin Wood and seven other attorneys who filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election be disciplined, calling the suit “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
In a scathing 110-page opinion, Federal District Judge Linda V. Parker wrote that the lawyers had made assertions in court that were not backed by evidence and had failed to do the due diligence required by legal rules before alleging mass fraud in the Michigan vote.
“This case was never about fraud,” she wrote. “It was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.”
She ordered the lawyers to pay the attorney’s fees for their opponents in the case — the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan. She also wrote that she will require them to attend legal education classes. And she referred the group to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission, as well as attorney disciplinary committees in the states where each attorney is licensed, which could initiate proceedings that could result in the lawyer’s being disbarred.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-judge-in-michigan-orders-pro-trump-lawyers-disciplined-over-lawsuit-seeking-to-overturn-2020-election/2021/08/25/16bbe7b2-05f0-11ec-a654-900a78538242_story.html
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