Trump-affiliated attorneys face discipline while Russia-gate lawyers get a passCourts and bar associations have rushed to discipline lawyers who assisted former President Donald Trump in pursuing his claims of a “stolen” election, yet the lawyers who helped Democrats peddle now-discredited “Russia-gate” theories about Mr. Trump have faced no apparent discipline from their colleagues.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer at the end of his presidency, has not been hit with criminal charges for furthering the then-president’s claims, but still had his license to practice law suspended in New York and the District of Columbia.
And Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and John Eastman are all battling disciplinary action over their legal work on behalf of Mr. Trump’s election fight.
But Michael Sussmann, who peddled claims that Mr. Trump’s team was colluding with a Russian bank — claims that were disputed at the time, and have since been debunked — and who stood trial, but was acquitted, of lying to the FBI about his ties to motives for the allegations, has not been debarred.
Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who pled guilty in August 2020 to altering an email to justify the bureau’s wiretapping of a Trump campaign figure, agreed to suspend his license to practice law in D.C. for a year. He was reinstated last fall, before his criminal sentence of 12 months of probation even concluded.............
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