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 Trumps 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 elections 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 Trump and his Republican allies have lost or withdrawn from nearly 50 legal challenges to this years election, including five in five different states within about three hours on Friday evening alone. Even so, Mr. Trumps 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.
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