Wood booted off Carter Page case
Jan. 11, 2021, 5:30 PM
Attorney L. Lin Wood, who led an unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election through the courts, lost the right to represent political operative Carter Page in Delaware on Monday, when a judge slammed him for inflammatory tweets, saying they partly “incited” the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“At least one tweet called for the arrest and execution of our vice-president,” and “another alleged claims against” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. that are “too disgusting and outrageous to repeat,” Judge Craig A. Karsnitz wrote. “No doubt these tweets, and many other things, incited these riots.”
But Karsnitz stressed that he was “not here to litigate if Mr. Wood was ultimately the source of the incitement.” The revocation of Wood’s authorization to represent Page was based on his election lawsuits, not his tweets before a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters sought to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, the judge said ...
The Delaware Superior Court ruling came three weeks after the judge ordered Wood to explain why his involvement in three cases challenging President-Elect Biden’s victory didn’t disqualify him from representing Page, the plaintiff in a defamation case stemming from the Mueller probe ...
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