The Lawyers
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I really don't understand a couple of Trump's lawyers.
First of all Sidney Powell. In the Flynn case, she showed herself to be dogged, accurate and totally capable of sniffing out information that threw his whole sorry affair under suspicion of malfeasance by the government. Judge Sullivan's posturing notwithstanding, I think she did a hell of a job.
Then, this election stuff. Sloppy research, terrible mistakes, and a lot of "Wait 'til you see this" stuff...and I'm still waiting. If you can't produce, then go away.
Secondly Lin Wood. High-profile lawyer: Counsel to Richard Jewell and Nicholas Sandmannn. Winning a huge case for Sandmann. Once again, determined and a winner.
Then, he calls for the execution of VP Pence? He goes into tin-foil hat territory about CJ Roberts and Epstein?
It's sad when your teenaged client calls you out on this crap:
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It does seem weird, almost inexplicable.
Though it’s a bit of a selection process at work. The sane lawyers fell by the wayside within a week of the election as it became clear there was no ‘there’ there. But, as you point out, that still leaves you with the conundrum that these guys were competent lawyers that could be taken seriously just a few months ago.
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Right-wing attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and the rest of the so-called “Kraken” counsel seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential elections should face proceedings to be disbarred, the city of Detroit told a federal judge on Tuesday.
“We have been horrified by the inappropriate actions of these attorneys and the plaintiffs themselves, and we have intended to seek any sanction the court can order,” Detroit’s counsel David Fink told Law&Crime in a phone interview, adding that the court has “inherent power” to refer disbarment or suspension proceedings to the chief judge.
Cataloguing Powell and Wood’s “lies,” “unhinged conspiracy theories,” and “fraud on the court,” Detroit created a detailed list of the duo’s courtroom and extrajudicial antics—such as their pining for martial law, fundraising through shadowy dark-money entities, and marshaling a secret witness code-named “Spyder” who later told a reporter that the legal team made him submit a false declaration. In another bizarre turn, Wood speculated that Chief Justice John Roberts may be part of a Jeffrey Epstein-linked cabal of pedophiles, a claim that led his ex-client Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic-high school student, to debunk him.
“While the First Amendment may protect the right of political fanatics to spew their lies and unhinged conspiracy theories, it does not grant anyone a license to abuse our courts for purposes which are antithetical to our democracy and to our judicial system,” Fink wrote in a brief supporting his motion. “Plaintiffs and their counsel cannot be allowed to use the court system to undermine the constitutional and statutory process by which we select our leaders.”
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in The Lawyers:
Right-wing attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and the rest of the so-called “Kraken” counsel seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential elections should face proceedings to be disbarred, the city of Detroit told a federal judge on Tuesday.
“We have been horrified by the inappropriate actions of these attorneys and the plaintiffs themselves, and we have intended to seek any sanction the court can order,” Detroit’s counsel David Fink told Law&Crime in a phone interview, adding that the court has “inherent power” to refer disbarment or suspension proceedings to the chief judge.
Cataloguing Powell and Wood’s “lies,” “unhinged conspiracy theories,” and “fraud on the court,” Detroit created a detailed list of the duo’s courtroom and extrajudicial antics—such as their pining for martial law, fundraising through shadowy dark-money entities, and marshaling a secret witness code-named “Spyder” who later told a reporter that the legal team made him submit a false declaration. In another bizarre turn, Wood speculated that Chief Justice John Roberts may be part of a Jeffrey Epstein-linked cabal of pedophiles, a claim that led his ex-client Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic-high school student, to debunk him.
“While the First Amendment may protect the right of political fanatics to spew their lies and unhinged conspiracy theories, it does not grant anyone a license to abuse our courts for purposes which are antithetical to our democracy and to our judicial system,” Fink wrote in a brief supporting his motion. “Plaintiffs and their counsel cannot be allowed to use the court system to undermine the constitutional and statutory process by which we select our leaders.”
BS.
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@jon-nyc said in The Lawyers:
It does seem weird, almost inexplicable.
Though it’s a bit of a selection process at work. The sane lawyers fell by the wayside within a week of the election as it became clear there was no ‘there’ there. But, as you point out, that still leaves you with the conundrum that these guys were competent lawyers that could be taken seriously just a few months ago.
It's almost as though it's deliberate. Maybe they're both secretly in league with JOE BIDEN!!!!!!!
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