Trump lawyers tried to defend the indefensible in Michigan. It didn't go well.
Sidney Powell and other Team Trump attorneys got a live master class in evidence and ethics this week.
There is a big difference between baseless assertions and evidence. On Monday, lawyers advancing claims of election fraud in support of former President Donald Trump got a master class in the distinction.
Sidney Powell and other lawyers are defending themselves in federal court against allegations that their election fraud lawsuit in Michigan was so frivolous that it constitutes abuse of the court process. Powell and co. filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group of Michigan voters and nominated Republican electors alleging that the election was manipulated to elect Joe Biden. The plaintiffs dismissed the lawsuit in December after U.S. District Judge Linda Parker denied their motion for an injunction.
Now, counsel for the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit are asking the court to order the lawyers to reimburse taxpayers for the costs of defending the lawsuit, to refer the lawyers for disciplinary action and to ban them from practicing in the Eastern District of Michigan. No matter what the outcome is, the exercise offers a cold, hard look at how weak Team Trump's nationwide series of legal challenges really was.
Methodically walking through the affidavits submitted in support of the complaint, Parker exposed the utter absence of any factual basis to support the lawsuit, expressing concern that it was filed to "make the public believe there was something wrong in Michigan." In her opinion denying the injunction in December, Parker wrote that the complaint was based on "speculation and conjecture."
"In fact," she wrote, "this lawsuit seems to be less about achieving the relief Plaintiffs seek ... and more about the impact of their allegations on people's faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government."
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Wednesday, July 14th 2021 at 12:30PM
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