U.S. District Judge Linda Parker for the Eastern District of Michigan is holding a hearing Monday morning on whether or not to sanction some of the loudest propagators of the most brazenly absurd conspiracy theories around the 2020 election.
(seriously considers running to grocery for popcorn)
Judge Parker may have some choice words for these folks, but it’s just a hearing, and it’s on Zoom. I’m not expecting many fireworks out of this.
Whether?
Cut the malarkey, and do it.
Lin Wood chimed in: “I played absolutely no role in the drafting of the complaint.”
Co-counsel Sgt. Shultz concurs.
“Not me! I had nothing to do with the kracken part! Not even a little bit! I don’t even believe in krackens!”
Hoping for fines and disbarment.
Ed: BIG fines.
“Your Honor, my clients fabricated a bunch of bullshit because zealous advocacy.”
Fines, yes. Bar from practicing in the district, conceivable. But disbarment is not a remedy that can be imposed here. Maybe a referral to the applicable bar associations, however.
Around one-quarter of one percent (that’s 0.23 percent) of the nearly 1.3 million practicing lawyers in the U.S. are publicly disciplined for ethical misconduct each year.
The most common form of public discipline is suspension, followed by disbarment.
Those stats are from the ABA 2020 Profile of the Legal Profession.
“In 2018 [the most recent year with available data], 2,872 lawyers were publicly disciplined for misconduct in 45 states and the District of Columbia,” says the report. “That represents roughly one-quarter of 1 percent of all practicing lawyers with active licenses in those states.”
Best defense is likely going to be ignorance, which I think this group are pros at.
So, her strategy is to continue to lie to a judge.
She’s gonna lose her license.
I think her future plans of living in the right wing media troll world won’t be impacted much by that.
Not a sanction available here. Judge Linda Parker is not the State Bar of Anywhere.
Slay The Kraken! Take off. Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Lin Wood using the Trump defense.
“Tax code? What in the world is a tax code?”
I didn’t say it was “available here.”
Nice little straw man you got there. Does he scare away the crows too?
The woman claiming she vetted the affidavits is so full of shit it’s not even funny.
And Kleinhendler is digging a hole.
Also, someone should probably let Powell know that “I don’t remember if I reviewed the affidavit before or after filing the Complaint” is a bad answer lol
I’m sure the Judge will understand how a lawyer for a private client needs to keep a “confidential federal informant” secret. Because that is TOTALLY how this sort of things work. TOTALLY.
The Judge should sanction these defense lawyers, too.
OMG, I wish I were sitting in the courtroom!!!
Let’s just say if there are a bunch of uniformed Marshall quietly sitting in the back row, then someone might be going into custody. Just saying.