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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan Trump's lawyers get in trouble for frivolous lawsuits?
I suspect tht there will be sanctions on these idots https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/can-trumps-lawyers-get-trouble-frivolous-lawsuits/
President Trumps legal team is entering into what might be its most desperate election challenge yet and given its overwhelmingly failed past efforts, thats saying something. Its move to join in the attempts by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to have the Supreme Court overturn the results in four key states has been ridiculed even by some top Republicans.
Texass own senior GOP senator, John Cornyn, said, I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory behind it. Jeb Bush responded by saying there was no theory and predicted that the court would reject it out of hand. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) even went so far Thursday as to suggest it was a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit and that Paxton might be merely seeking a Trump pardon for his personal legal problems.
The thing is, though, our legal system has mechanisms to combat frivolous lawsuits. Broadly speaking, there is supposed to be a price to pay for flooding the zone with the kind of dubious claims and alleged PR stunts that have characterized the Trump teams legal strategy.....
But Gillers also noted that sanctions could also come from outside the courts. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.), for instance, has filed complaints in five states seeking to strip Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and 22 lawyers affiliated with Trumps effort of their law licenses. Pascrell has accused the lawyers of frivolous lawsuits and conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
Given the complaints filed by Rep. Pascrell and others, the risk to the lawyers has been increasing daily, Gillers said. For all we know, discipline investigations may already be occurring but are not yet public. In early stages, they are confidential.
Texass own senior GOP senator, John Cornyn, said, I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory behind it. Jeb Bush responded by saying there was no theory and predicted that the court would reject it out of hand. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) even went so far Thursday as to suggest it was a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit and that Paxton might be merely seeking a Trump pardon for his personal legal problems.
The thing is, though, our legal system has mechanisms to combat frivolous lawsuits. Broadly speaking, there is supposed to be a price to pay for flooding the zone with the kind of dubious claims and alleged PR stunts that have characterized the Trump teams legal strategy.....
But Gillers also noted that sanctions could also come from outside the courts. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.), for instance, has filed complaints in five states seeking to strip Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and 22 lawyers affiliated with Trumps effort of their law licenses. Pascrell has accused the lawyers of frivolous lawsuits and conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
Given the complaints filed by Rep. Pascrell and others, the risk to the lawyers has been increasing daily, Gillers said. For all we know, discipline investigations may already be occurring but are not yet public. In early stages, they are confidential.
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Can Trump's lawyers get in trouble for frivolous lawsuits? (Original Post)
Gothmog
Dec 2020
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ecdab
(930 posts)1. I sure hope they disbar these clowns and take what additional steps are available to be...
taken to ensure that our courts are not used for political theater in the future. This has been a national disgrace of epic proportions.
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)2. Should they and will they are two different questions.