![]() Trump lawyer Lin Wood, who held up a Bible during a news conference disputing the 2020 election results, has tried to distance himself from unsupported legal claims filed in Michigan Wood said on the social media platform Telegram that he “had nothing to do with” the lawsuit and would appeal. Powell did not immediately respond to requests by the Reuters news service for comment. ![]() In Michigan, the federal judge said that Powell, Wood, and other lawyers who worked with them “have scorned their oath, flouted the rules, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way”. Meanwhile, following Trump’s lead, Republicans in Texas are seeking to follow other Republican-led states with new state laws restricting balloting and creating avenues for overturning election results.ĭemocrats who had boycotted the state legislature for six weeks argued the law is designed to suppress voting while Republicans said it is needed to protect election integrity. The committee is seeking information on what happened on January 6 and “the former president’s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the American people about the election”, according to a letter by Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat, who is chair the House inquiry. ![]() The judge’s disciplinary action against Trump’s lawyers is the latest twist in the running political saga generated by the former president’s false claims that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen from him by fraud.Ī special committee in the US House of Representatives demanded documents from the White House and other US agencies about Trump’s communications leading up to and including the January 6 riot by Trump supporters at the US Capitol. “This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process,” Parker said in her decision, adding that the case “was never about fraud – it was about undermining the people’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.” The judge ordered the lawyers to attend classes on the ethical and legal requirements for filing legal claims. Parker dismissed the Michigan suit last December and now has formally requested professional disciplinary bodies investigate whether Trump’s lawyers should have their law licences revoked. In a written ruling on Wednesday, US District Judge Linda Parker in Detroit said the pro-Trump lawyers, including Powell and prominent litigator Lin Wood, should have investigated the Republican former president’s voter fraud claims more carefully before filing a “frivolous” lawsuit. A US judge has sanctioned Sidney Powell and other lawyers for former President Donald Trump who sued in Michigan to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden’s election victory.
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