see url:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sidney-powell-disciplinary-hearing/2021/07/12/61d44ac4-e0c9-11eb-9f54-7eee10b5fcd2_story.html
see full story...Thats the trouble with Presidential elections...they
are so troublesome, not retrogressive enough and not unDemocratic
enough...😉
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The latest effort to hold former president Donald Trump and his allies
accountable for months of baseless claims about the 2020 election played
out Monday in a Michigan courtroom, where a federal judge asked detailed
and skeptical questions of several lawyers she is considering imposing
sanctions against for filing a suit seeking to overturn the results.
U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker said she would rule on a
request to discipline the lawyers in coming weeks. But over and over
again during the more than five-hour hearing, she pointedly pressed the
lawyers involved — including Trump allies Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood
— to explain what steps they had taken to ensure their court filings in
the case filed last year had been accurate. She appeared astonished by
many of their answers.
While their suit aimed to create a broad impression that the vote in
Michigan — and specifically Detroit’s Wayne County — had been troubled,
the affidavits filed to support those claims included obvious errors,
speculation and basic misunderstandings of how elections are generally
conducted in the state, Parker said.
“There’s a duty that counsel has that when you’re submitting a sworn
statement . . . that you have reviewed it, that you had done some
minimal due diligence,” she said.
As the hearing concluded, a defiant Powell told the judge that she took
“full responsibility” for the case’s pleadings and said she would file
them again. She and the other lawyers “had a legal obligation to the
country” to raise issues with the election, Powell said.
If Parker decides to discipline the lawyers, she could require them to
pay the fees of their opponents in the case, the city of Detroit and
Michigan state officials. But she could also go further — assessing
additional monetary penalties or recommending grievance proceedings be
opened that could result in banning the attorneys from practicing in
Michigan or disbarring them altogether.
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