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Pro-Trump Lawyers who Pushed the Big Lie offered the Big Soup
There is darkness at the end of the tunnel
Have you ever sat down to pen a list of things that could go wrong in your career? I generally run those things in my head and then forget them.
If pro-Trump lawyers who pushed Donald Trump’s big lie wrote themselves a career risk-assessment report on November 4th, 2020, and read them today, they will be unpleasantly surprised.
Everything that could go wrong has already gone wrong. The shit they threw has hit the fan. The fan has started to spin. And they have nowhere to run.
The Hammer Just Got Bigger
In Michigan, a federal judge ordered nine attorneys who were involved in the suit to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election be disciplined.
This case was never about fraud. It was about undermining the People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so. — Federal District Judge Linda V. Parker
The judge ordered the lawyers “to pay the attorney’s fees for their opponents in the case” and referred all of them to the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission and disciplinary committees in…