By respectable professionals.
Be sure to compare Rubin's fact-filled essay about democracy's need for this action with the Axios version in the OP. Rubin doesn't see it as "going after the LIVELIHOODS" of criminals targeted in Axios'
headline. She doesn't claim "dark-money" funding or punitive Democratic political action in the first paragraph. She doesn't mention disreputable and highly partisan David Brock, who is highlighted so heavily by Axios that you'd think it was HIS project. And so on in this hit piece.
I think this immediate attack by heavy-hitter Axios PROVES this very good news is real.
Btw, let's also not forget the Kochs' heavy investment in Axios -- among the founders who created it from nothing to major political influencer in one big-money step. How's a segment ending Way Too Early and effectively opening for Morning Joe every morning for a nice kick-off -- targeted at DEMOCRATIC VOTERS?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/07/trump-lawyers-election-misconduct-initiative-to-discipline/
The organization’s advisory board includes
* former Democratic senator Thomas A. Daschle from South Dakota;
* Christine M. Durham, a retired chief justice of the Utah Supreme Court;
* Roberta Cooper Ramo, the first woman to serve as president of the American Bar Association and president emeritus of the prestigious American Law Institute; and
* Paul Rosenzweig, a senior adviser to the Chertoff Group, a security risk advisory firm co-founded by former secretary of homeland security Michael Chertoff. ...
The group has identified 111 lawyers across 26 states whose names appeared on President Donald Trump’s post-election lawsuits. The first 10 bar complaints it announced on Monday target “attorneys who supported sabotaging legitimate election results including fake electors, Trump’s inner legal circle, and insurrectionists to hold them accountable by seeking disciplinary action up to and including disbarment.” ...
I asked the 65Project’s managing director, Michael Teter, about members of Congress who are lawyers. “We plan to bring complaints against elected officials who helped instigate January 6 or who participated in litigation that raised fraudulent and bogus claims,” he wrote in an email. “Of the 30 or so members of Congress who are lawyers and signed the amicus brief in Texas v. Pennsylvania,” which sought to throw out Pennsylvania’s electoral votes, “we’re identifying the more egregious among them (based on public statements, voting for the electoral count objections, etc.) and will be bringing bar complaints soon.” ...
His group cannot carry the caseload alone. Teter told me, “We will turn to recruiting local teams of attorneys in each state where we’ll be filing complaints and start going through the relevant court documents to assemble the strongest case against the Big Lie lawyers that we can.” He added, “Then, we’ll begin filing the complaints, probably in waves.” Sounds like an exciting pro bono endeavor for some major law firms.
Also sounds like a good project to kick off during the midterm primary season. Might just discourage some attorneys for the dark side from (further) criminalizing themselves.
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