Woes mount for legal loyalists who pushed Trump's election conspiracies

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Woes mount for legal loyalists who pushed Trump’s election conspiracies

Crew of lawyers including L Lin Wood and Sidney Powell battling federal inquiries and defamation suits that threaten their careers

Peter Stone
Wed 16 Jun 2021 07.00 BST

A crew of conservative lawyers still pushing disinformation that echoes Donald Trump’s false claim that the election was rigged are now battling federal inquiries, defamation lawsuits and bar association scrutiny that threaten to cripple their legal careers.

Former justice department officials say Trump’s legal loyalists are weakening trust in the American electoral system via persistent repetition of his baseless claims. They note that some are actively backing Republican drives in key states to change election laws seen as undermining voting rights for communities of color.

Take Sidney Powell, a pro-Trump conspiracy promoter and ex-federal prosecutor.

After a short stint on Trump’s legal team last December, where she made wild claims about election fraud due to a voting machine company’s alleged ties to Venezuela, which sparked a $1.3bn defamation lawsuit against her, Powell in late May drew ridicule for telling a Dallas QAnon meeting that Trump could be “reinstated” this summer.

There is also election law veteran Cleta Mitchell, who was on Trump’s infamous January call with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, where Trump urged him to “find” 11,000-plus votes to block Joe Biden’s win. Mitchell is now leading a $10m FreedomWorks drive in seven states to tighten election laws in ways that are seen as crimping voting rights.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/16/trump-election-legal-lawyers-sidney-powell-l-lin-wood

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1. These idiots need to be disbarred and bankrupted

I am looking forward to these idiots getting their butts kicked in the Fominion and other lawsuits