Group asks DC court panel to investigate DOJ official who peddled false Trump election claims

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Source: The Hll

Group asks DC court panel to investigate DOJ official who peddled false Trump election claims

BY JOHN KRUZEL - 10/05/21 06:01 AM EDT

A group of legal heavyweights on Tuesday asked the disciplinary panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals to investigate a former Department of Justice (DOJ) official who allegedly sought to use his official position in the federal government to overturn former President Trump’s election defeat.

In a 15-page ethics complaint, the group said former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark should face disciplinary action over his alleged attempt in late December to subvert the 2020 election result in part by proposing that he and two other top DOJ officials send letters to state leaders, including those in Georgia, making the unfounded claim that the department “identified concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states.” (1)

A central allegation in the complaint is that Clark’s plan amounted to an attempt to interfere with the “administration of justice” by seeking to derail Congress’ Jan. 6 certification of Biden’s win. Such tampering is prohibited by the District’s ethics rules for lawyers.

Unlike other Trump-allied attorneys, some of whom have had their law licenses suspended or been hit with court sanctions, Clark so far has faced no repercussions.

But the complaint alleges that Clark's conduct as a DOJ official was even more egregious than that of sanctioned pro-Trump lawyers like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, whose efforts centered on court challenges and right-wing media appearances.

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(1) https://ldad.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DC-Ethics-Complaint-Against-Jeffrey-Clark.pdf

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/575284-group-asks-dc-court-panel-to-investigate-doj-official-who-peddled

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Scoop: A group of legal heavyweights asked the disciplinary panel of the D.C. courts to investigate former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who allegedly sought to use his official U.S. government position to overturn Trump’s election defeat

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[msfiddlestix]

1. Sad commentary that Clark et al has yet to be held accountable long before now

That it fell on the shoulders of others seeking to rectify this egregious act.

Hopefully, this group of "heavyweights" will be successful in bringing redress in this court panel. We'll see I guess, if this DC Court Panel is seated by TRump loyalists or not.

[Jimvanhise]

2. A lot of explaining to do.

Rudy just admitted under oath that he got his claims of election fraud from "something he read on the internet" and he doesn't remember exactly where. Where did Jeffrey Clark's claims come from? A dream he had?

[PatSeg]

4. It is rather mindboggling

How did so many people end up this wacko?

[Justice matters.]

6. A dream of becoming one of the orange terrorist's inner-circle oligarch

expecting dictatortot don to write him a bigly check, never mind that he never pays lawyers...

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Another example of the banality of evil, so prolific when the fascists still held more power.

[PatSeg]

5. Welcome to DU!

Yes, it does become so prolific when fascists are in power, kind of like sleeper cells being activated all at once.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

8. Bannon, the pied piper of fascism, also lays it all so clearly and seditiously...don't need

sleeper cells to destroy American democracy, just have to create the cells out in the open and insert where required into the machinery of government next time the fascists control the White House.

Yet they all still walk and talk and breath fresh air.

Why?

[PatSeg]

10. I often think of the many blind followers

of these authoritarians as the Pod People. It is still hard for me to believe that it was that easy to get so many people to embrace such hateful ideology and metaphorically to go off a cliff. We've all been living in "shock and awe" mode for over four years.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. why do the inner circle of tfg have that same stoopid pouting face ?

did they inherit from tfg?

[TeamProg]

9. Isn't going after Clark for sedition 'no brainer'? n/t

[rkleinberger]

11. Finally some movement on this!

[Ford_Prefect]

12. Clark's behavior and actions should put him just shy of the end of a short rope.

Treason and Sedition are crimes against the whole nation. His punishment should reflect this degree of betrayal. He was not only member of the DC bar and an officer of the courts he was also a FEDERAL employee who swore the oath and signed it.

He knew that what he proposed and did was outside the accepted and the lawful. He Knew he was breaking the Constitution by pretending to merely bend it. He has said as much on other occasions when speaking to his CPAC peers.

He is the very epitome of Federalist Society Scum and should be treated as such. He is the legalistic version of Steve Bannon.