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sabra

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Mon Dec 7, 2020, 02:10 PM Dec 2020

Lawyers across the country urge bar associations to investigate Trump's legal team

Source: NYT

Arguing that “a license to practice law is not a license to lie,” nearly 1,500 lawyers issued a letter on Monday calling on bar associations across the country to investigate and, if needed, penalize the members of President Trump’s legal team, including the architect of his post-election strategy, Rudolph W. Giuliani.

“It is indefensible for lawyers to falsely proclaim widespread voting fraud, submit a pattern of frivolous court claims and actively seek to undermine citizens’ faith in our election’s integrity,” said the letter, which was signed by several former judges, former federal prosecutors and law professors. “We condemn this conduct without reservation.”

The letter comes as Mr. Trump and his Republican allies have lost or withdrawn from nearly 50 legal challenges to this year’s election, including five in five different states within about three hours on Friday evening alone. Even so, Mr. Trump’s lawyers and those representing his Republican allies have continued filing lawsuits, igniting criticism that they are acting frivolously, even irresponsibly.

In their letter on Monday, the signers noted that Mr. Giuliani — who recently tested positive for Covid-19, according to President Trump — has made baseless arguments in public about “massive fraud” in the election, but has tempered his claims under questioning in court, saying he was not alleging fraud.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/07/us/joe-biden-trump#lawyers-across-the-country-urge-bar-associations-to-investigate-trumps-legal-team

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Lawyers across the country urge bar associations to investigate Trump's legal team (Original Post) sabra Dec 2020 OP
not a license to lie you say? flibbitygiblets Dec 2020 #1
Disbar them all. They're a disgrace to the legal profession. onetexan Dec 2020 #2
yeah, gee, they're enough to give ambulance chasers a good name bucolic_frolic Dec 2020 #3
Jim Carrey - Stop Breaking The Law Asshole! ItsjustMe Dec 2020 #4
It wasn't even close by election standards world wide wally Dec 2020 #5
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