“You have to have some facts to support your claim, and you have to have some legal arguments that aren’t ridiculous.”Ĭritics say the effort by groups like 65 Project have been aimed exclusively at lawyers representing Republicans, and they see the complaints as an effort to weaponize – and politicize – disciplinary review so that lawyers will think twice before representing GOP candidates. “The line between a weak claim or a losing claim on the one hand and a frivolous one on the other is sometimes not so clear,” Green said. Sanctioning a lawyer for what they put in a lawsuit is trickier. When lawyers are sanctioned, it’s usually for egregious conduct like stealing a client’s money or committing other crimes, said Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham Law School. And some of the cases may not be resolved by the time voting begins next year. Is time running out in effort to punish Trump lawyers?īut Teter and others acknowledged the work has been slow going. “The ultimate goal is to deter it,” said Michael Teter, managing director of the 65 Project, which has filed nearly 80 ethics complaints with state disciplinary boards. “From our standpoint, we wanted to make sure that lawyers know they’re not going to get away with this.” Advocates say the goal of sanctioning attorneys for “Big Lie” lawsuits is to prevent another wave of Hail Mary litigation based on conspiracy theories in the future. The outcome of dozens of pending ethics investigations could eventually have consequences for the 2024 presidential election and beyond. More than two years after courts largely dismissed a flurry of lawsuits from allies of former President Donald Trump aimed at reversing the election, the debate over whether to punish the lawyers who filed those suits continues to play out across the nation. Some are more obscure but played critical roles in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. WASHINGTON – A few are household names, like Rudy Giuliani. Watch Video: Dominion Voting Systems sues Rudy Giuliani over his election claims
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