Judge Craig Karsnitz SUSPENDS Lin Wood's right to practice in Delaware

[kpete]

@DemocracyDocket

🚨🆕: Judge Craig Karsnitz SUSPENDS Lin Wood's right to practice in Delaware (i.e. pro hac vice), calling his conduct in the post-election period "a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence."

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[Walleye]

1. Yay! Delaware steps up. We are a civilized state

[lindysalsagal]

2. Finally!

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Oh Snap!

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[Leghorn21]

4. K&R

[Jersey Devil]

5. Lin is not licensed in Delaware

When a lawyer who is not licensed in a state wants to represent someone in that state he must apply to the court to be admitted for that case only, "pro hac vice", and must apply for every case he wants to file in that state. It is done on a case by case basis and usually the lawyer is required to have someone who IS admitted in the state also appear with him.

[TheRickles]

6. Thanks for the clarification.

But it's still an excellent precedent that other jurisdictions may follow regarding Mr. Wood and some of his colleagues.

[Jersey Devil]

7. absolutely

Wood should also be disciplined in his home state and wherever else he may have been admitted to practice regularly. Calling for the VP to be shot should be dealt with immediately and I am very surprised that has not been done yet.

[TheRickles]

11. Any idea why state bar associations haven't been doing this over the past few years?

How people like Barr, Giuliani, Wood et al haven't even been censured, not to mention disbarred, by their professional colleagues is very disappointing.

[Jersey Devil]

12. It's not necessarily the bar associations

Bar associations are for the most part private associations akin to clubs and most do not discipline lawyers in their states (although they do in some jurisdictions). In NJ, for instance, where I am admitted as a lawyer, any complaint against a lawyer is handled by Disciplinary Committee in their home county, appointed by the Supreme Court. Each county committee reports its findings to the Supreme Court, which then orders the discipline in each case.

[TheRickles]

14. Looks like the process is more complicated that I thought.

But still, I wonder why no county Disciplinary Committees have pursued this course of action (that I know of), or at least gotten the ball rolling.

[Jersey Devil]

19. My take is that Trumpers are now embedded

in more groups and organizations than we thought. As we saw as a result of the sedition that took place on Jan 6, they are among our cops, firemen, military forces and even Congress. Apparently we can even add bar associations and disciplinary committees. We are going to have a tough battle to root them out.

I even see people on Facebook using Trumpian code words like "a storm is coming" (Qanon nonsense) who I thought were reasonable people until Jan 6.

[marble falls]

8. "a toxic stew of mendacity, prevarication, and surprising incompetence." Ironically, what's ...

... on the menu at the White House tonight.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. ding.

[Initech]

10. Where is Nelson when you need him?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. Mendacity - Habitual Lying

Wish more of us knew the meaning and the harm mendacity does.

[onetexan]

18. wish another judge would do the same for Rudy

[orangecrush]

15. WOOT!!!

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. The judge noticed the "incompetence," did he?

It was so well-hidden by his flurry of important legal accomplishments. I heard that Ol' Lin came close to winning an objection he raised, and that was just one example from one case.

I'm sure there were others.

[onetexan]

17. LOL

[calimary]

20. BEAUTIFUL!!! Can we follow that with disbarment?