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Spiro Agnews Ghost
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BREAKING: Judge Linda Parker has granted Michigan & Detroits motion for sanctions against the Kraken lawyers, including referrals for disbarment against Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, etc.
2:51 PM · Aug 25, 2021 from Los Angeles, CA
Nevilledog
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NEW: Judge Linda Parker has granted Michigan/Detroits motion for sanctions against the Kraken lawyers, including referrals for disbarment against Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, etc. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf
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2:45 PM · Aug 25, 2021
Full Order by Judge Parker
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf
teach1st
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(13,903 posts)Nittersing
(6,352 posts)Who does it get referred to? State Bar associations?
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)A common misunderstanding is the role of bar associations which, in most states, is merely a professional organization. There are some in which the bar association licenses lawyers.
In most states, lawyers are licensed under the authority of the highest court in the state, which authorizes a particular code of conduct and appoints a body to oversee violations of that code.
Since federal courts do not license lawyers, they must refer findings of misconduct to the appropriate state body for whatever action that body believes to be appropriate.
Nittersing
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Mr.Bill
(24,262 posts)The Bar Associations themselves have no integrity and need to clean their own house. Judges should have jailed these assholes for contempt.
PatSeg
(47,351 posts)still have a license to practice law is beyond belief.
soldierant
(6,836 posts)and therefore cannot disbar. But there will be some agency in each home state of these lawyers which does. I gather Powell is from Texas? And I blieve Wood is from Georgia.
Don't get me wrong, there are groups which have the authority, and those are the groups to whm this is being referreed ... and those groups must justify their own integrity (or continue in shame without it, but I hope the former.) They just mostly are not "bar associations."
Goonch
(3,603 posts)Ptah
(33,023 posts)The attorneys must also pay legal fees for the city of Detroit and others that defended against the lawsuit and take 12 hours of training including six hours focused on election law in the next six months.
The punishments foreshadow far more potentially devastating problems for Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and a cadre of other attorneys who used their so-called "Kraken" lawsuit to push a false claim that an international cabal worked to steal the election away from Trump in Michigan and several other states.
In addition to harshly chastising the attorneys who filed the suit in her ruling, U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker ordered her sanctions be sent to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission and similar associations around the country. Other courts and state bar associations have the capacity to disbar or otherwise punish these attorneys.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/25/federal-judge-sanctions-sidney-powell-kraken-team-over-election-case/5484021001/
Nevilledog
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸
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So today, Sidney Powell told Steve Bannon that she needs 100 attorneys to help defend the insurrectionists.
With todays news of her potential disbarment, she now needs 101.
5:21 PM · Aug 25, 2021
OMGWTF
(3,949 posts)Beetwasher.
(2,970 posts)I know, its hard doing it the right way, but due process is what separates us from everything we abhor. Patience. Its frustrating waiting, I know, but it must be done the right way.