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General Category => National/Breaking News => SCOTUS News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 20, 2024, 05:42:56 pm
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Supreme Court declines to undo sanctions on pro-Trump 2020 campaign lawyers
by Ella Lee - 02/20/24 9:48 AM ET
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.
Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an attempt to prove election results were illegitimate in states where Trump had lost. The efforts failed across the board and no evidence of widespread fraud was uncovered.
After dismissing the case, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, of the Eastern District of Michigan, ordered sanctions for the Trump-aligned lawyers, describing the lawsuit as a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
“Sanctions are required to deter the filing of future frivolous lawsuits designed primarily to spread the narrative that our election processes are rigged and our democratic institutions cannot be trusted,” Parker wrote in the 110-page opinion.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4478279-supreme-court-sanctions-pro-trump-2020-campaign-lawyers/
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Whadya expect from the cowards who would not even look at the evidence?
If they undid the sanctions, they would admit that they should have at least looked at the case where they had primary jurisdiction.
It can be hard to admit you bred the dog.