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LetMyPeopleVote

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Thu May 19, 2022, 01:58 AM May 2022

Ted Cruz is the target of a bar association complaint over his role in undermining the 2020 election

This will be fun to watch



https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/18/ted-cruz-donald-trump-complaint-texas-bar/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1652923460&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

A group of lawyers want the State Bar of Texas to investigate Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for his “leading” role in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Lawyers with the 65 Project, an organization aiming to hold attorneys accountable for trying to keep former President Donald Trump in power despite his reelection loss, filed an ethics complaint with the association Wednesday. It cites Cruz’s role in a lawsuit seeking to void absentee ballots, numerous claims he made about voter fraud, plus an attempt to stop four states from using 2020 election results to appoint electors — all of which failed.

“Mr. Cruz knew that the allegations he was echoing had already been reviewed and rejected by courts. And he knew that claims of voter fraud or the election being stolen were false,” the complaint says.....

Cruz represented Pennsylvania Republicans in their efforts to cast out nearly all 2020 absentee ballots in their state, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected. Cruz accused the state court of being “a partisan, Democratic court that has issued multiple decisions that were just on their face contrary to law.”

The complaint wants to see Cruz disciplined. It does not say how, though it mentions a New York appellate court’s suspension of Rudy Giuliani’s law license. Guiliani was one of Trump’s lawyers who also repeated false voter fraud claims.
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Ted Cruz is the target of a bar association complaint over his role in undermining the 2020 election (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2022 OP
Oooohhh! ShazzieB May 2022 #1
Will no one rid us of this feckless creep? dchill May 2022 #2
On the topic of disbarring attorneys, no_hypocrisy May 2022 #3

no_hypocrisy

(46,088 posts)
3. On the topic of disbarring attorneys,
Thu May 19, 2022, 04:51 AM
May 2022

I'd like to see a review of Thomas, Alito, Barret Comey, Gorsich, and Kavanaugh for their law licenses.

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