Supreme Court declines to undo sanctions on pro-Trump 2020 campaign lawyers

by larel8

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  1. Everything about Sidney Powell irritates me. She is profoundly unlikable, in addition to being an insurrectionist piece of shit. Out of all the faces being eaten by leapords, hers is the most delicious, second only to the Orange himself.

  2. Then they can say we have punished some of those involved and let Trump off.

  3. FAFO; Hey Sidney, the courts don’t like it when people try to play them. Oh, and it probably didn’t help that you plead guilty to state criminal charges in Georgia over your efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in the state.

  4. “Comparing the mythological creature to the fraud”- ehh, wasn’t the kraken supposed to be the evidence of the fraud.

  5. The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.

    Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an attempt to prove election results were illegitimate in states where Trump had lost. The efforts failed across the board and no evidence of widespread fraud was uncovered.

    After dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, of the Eastern District of Michigan, ordered sanctions for the Trump-aligned lawyers, describing

  6. > The Trump lawyers were ordered to pay back attorneys’ fees accumulated by Michigan state officials and Detroit in seeking the sanctions — ***and to take legal education classes.*** Parker also referred her decision to disciplinary authorities where each attorney is admitted for “investigation and possible suspension or disbarment.”

    Go back to school!

  7. For context: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.

    Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an attempt to prove election results were illegitimate in states where Trump had lost. The efforts failed across the board and no evidence of widespread fraud was uncovered.

    After dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, of the Eastern District of Michigan, ordered sanctions for the Trump-aligned lawyers, describing the lawsuit as a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”

    “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,” Parker wrote in the 110-page opinion.

  8. Ideally this will send a message to any other attorneys considering similar shenanigans. The client may avoid consequences, but his enablers will not.

  9. Sanctions are okay as a first step, but step two needs to be LOCK THEM ALL UP! l Then with that precedent well establish, do the same for the 172 Congress Critters a 7 Senators who support the 6 Jan coup and continue to commit sedition on the grounds it’s their right as elected officials of the Federal Government to DESTROY the Federal Government with lies and obstruction of the functioning of said government..

  10. This is a big defeat for Trump in a sycophants, in terms of having the Supreme Court in their pocket for their upcoming cases.

  11. What if every Trump supporter is actually a reptilian.

  12. At first I was like how the fuck could they write an 110 page opinion and only give fines and classes (no disbarment much less suspensions) then I realized the case was in federal court in Michigan so they’re referring it to state courts where they practice where the “bars are located.” Technically to practice in a federal district court you need an admission in that federal court but you also need an admission into the state court where that federal district resides. So they may get disbarred yet!

  13. Does SCOTUS *ever* get involved with sanctions that a lower court hands down to attorneys? I can’t imagine they would do so unless there was a clear infringement of an attorney’s constitutional rights.

    I can’t find the writ that she petitioned with. Anyone know what she claimed in it?

  14. I’m not good with photoshop but somewhere out there I hope someone can render some “Sidney Sneakers”

  15. This picture could pass as an ad for a movie to cover the mess that was the 2016 election.

  16. I like the basic SCOTUS trend of this:

    They’ve got what they needed from Trump, their lifetime appointments. Now that he can do nothing further for them, he is worthless to them.

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