TX State Bar files disciplinary action against fmr. Trump attorney Sidney Powell

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David Lee
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#BREAKING: @StateBarofTexas files disciplinary action against fmr. Trump attorney Sidney Powell over 2020 election fraud lawsuits. "Had no reasonable basis to believe the lawsuits she filed were not frivolous." My story below @CourthouseNews

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Texas Bar files disciplinary action against former Trump attorney
The petition claims Sidney Powell should have known the federal election fraud lawsuits she filed were frivolous.
4:01 PM · Mar 8, 2022

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-bar-files-disciplinary-action-against-former-trump-attorney/

DALLAS (CN) — The State Bar of Texas has filed a disciplinary action against attorney Sidney Powell, accusing her of professional misconduct for filing several federal lawsuits contesting the election of President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump in 2020.

The bar association’s Commission for Lawyer Discipline filed the lawsuit in Dallas County District Court on March 1, and the case was first made public seven days later. The commission says it sued Powell, of Dallas, after receiving 10 separate complaints against her since December 2020.

“Beginning in or about November of 2020[,] respondent filed multiple federal lawsuits in different jurisdictions (including the District Court of Arizona, the Northern District of Georgia, the Eastern District of Michigan, and the Eastern District of Wisconsin) alleging, inter alia, election fraud has occurred in the national presidential election in 2020,” the six-page complaint states. “Respondent had no reasonable basis to believe the lawsuits she filed were not frivolous.” (Parentheses in original.)

The lawsuit claims Powell violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and five subsections of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct.

The commission alleges Powell took positions in the litigation that “unreasonably increased the costs” of the cases and “unreasonably delayed” their resolution, including an alleged failure to drop a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Michigan when “requested relief was moot.”

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1. *AND* the draconian "disciplinary action" IS?!1

[Shrike47]

2. She gets due process before any discipline is imposed.

[Ocelot II]

3. Disbarment, potentially.

[onetexan]

8. it needs to be nothing less than disbarment. The woman is a disgrace to the legal profession.

[Ocelot II]

9. Absolutely.

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4. This makes me happy

This idiot needs to be disbarred

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5. This makes me happy

This idiot needs to be disbarred

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Texas State Bar complaint moves forward against AG Ken Paxton over attempt to overturn 2020 election

This also makes me smile

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-State-Bar-complaint-moves-forward-against-16987171.php

A Texas State Bar complaint against Attorney General Ken Paxton is moving forward and will be heard by either a district court judge or an administrative panel, the complainants said Tuesday.

The complaint was filed in July 2021 by the nonprofit Lawyers Defending American Democracy and 16 Texas lawyers, including four former presidents of the state Bar. It alleges that Paxton committed professional misconduct when he filed the December 2020 suit before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the presidential election results in four battleground states. The complainants say the suit was frivolous, knowingly false and deceitful....

“This is a big step because this rarely happens,” said Jim Harrington, one of the Texas lawyers who joined the complaint and a retired founder of the Texas Civil Rights Project, a nonprofit that advocates for voting rights. “I just know from being a lawyer for 50 years, this is very rare.”......

Under the disciplinary rules, Paxton now has 20 days to decide whether to request the case be heard by a district court, where proceedings are public, or by an evidentiary panel. If he chooses the evidentiary panel, the proceedings will be kept private unless public sanctions are imposed. Dismissals or private sanctions are not made public.

[Nevilledog]

7. Yay!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Ken is unhappy

The State Bar of Texas is very conservative. Poor Paxton is not having fun

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[Ocelot II]

10. Him, too.

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11. The Texas state bar has been busy

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13. Joe Jaworski on Ken Paxton

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