Courts crack down on the 'Kraken' lawyers
Things are heating up in a Michigan federal court around the Big Lie, with lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood facing sanctions for bringing a series of election fraud lawsuits that had no apparent basis in law or fact.
This is an extremely important development for the rule of law and the integrity of the judicial system, as it comes on the heels of a New York state appeals court's decision suspending Rudy Giuliani from practicing law in that state for similarly lying to the courts. Recall that Team Trump brought 65 post-election lawsuits around the Big Lie, roundly losing 64 for lack of evidence and other legal flaws - including through the pens of Trump-appointed judges.
Here's the problem for lawyers willing to lie in court: Courts, unlike politicians, are bound by rules of evidence and procedure. They have no choice but to follow the facts and the law. Otherwise, their decisions will be reversed by an appeals court. When it comes to the 2020 election litigation, some judges are finally stepping up to punish lawyers - who are otherwise constrained by ethical rules as a precondition to maintaining a law license - for abusing the courts in order to spread public disinformation for political gain.
Powell and other lawyers brought four lawsuits in battleground states that included Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Georgia. All four were expeditiously rejected all the way to the U.S Supreme Court. A federal court in Arizona called Powell's case "sorely wanting of relevant or reliable evidence," a Wisconsin judge called her pleas for relief the stuff of a "mythical time machine," and U.S. District Judge Linda Parker dismissed Powell's Michigan case for relying on "nothing but speculation and conjecture." Powell also faces defamation lawsuits by Dominion Voting Systems and another manufacturer for touting the falsehood that the companies' machines fraudulently helped President Biden win the 2020 election. Filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., the Dominion lawsuit alleges that "Dominion's founder, Dominion's employees, Georgia's governor, and Georgia's secretary of state have been harassed and have received death threats" as a result.
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to do the same (lock 'em up!) for elected officials also perpetuating "THE BIG LIE!" 