Judge Sanctions Trump Allies And Orders Legal Education For Failed Election Lawsuit
By Curt_Anderson August 25, 2021 10:49 pm Category: Law (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Maybe the gullible rubles who were deceived into believing that Trump was cheated out of an election can collectively file a class action lawsuit against Trump's lousy litigators. The judge opened that door as a possibility.
Nine attorneys aligned with former President Donald Trump who filed an unsuccessful lawsuit challenging Michigan's 2020 presidential election results will have to pay financial penalties and face other punitive actions for their legal effort, a district court judge ruled on Wednesday.
"This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process," U.S. District Judge Linda Parker wrote in her scathing decision on the case.
"It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an allegedly fraudulent election," she wrote. "It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed, without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what happened here."
The ruling stems from a lawsuit brought by the attorneys — including Trump backers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood — which sought to decertify Michigan's election results under the false pretense that ballots had been manipulated in Joe Biden's favor.
Parker also ordered the nine attorneys named in the ruling to receive 12 hours of legal education, six of which will focus specifically on election law. They could face possible further action in the individual states in which they practice.
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Maybe the gullible rubles who were deceived into believing that Trump was cheated out of an election can collectively file a class action lawsuit against Trump's lousy litigators. The judge opened that door as a possibility.
