But Donald Trump’s lawyer, James Kiley, said in a new filing that the cases aren’t analogous.
Instead, judges and attorney discipline panels are performing their own investigations, case by case, in a methodical fashion. This week in Michigan, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker grilled lawyers close to Trump about the actions they took before filing a lawsuit that claimed irregularities in the 2020 election.
As Insider's Laura Italiano, Sonam Sheth, and Jacob Shamsian reported, Trump lawyers also attacked James personally during the Thursday hearing, with the attorney Alina Habba accusing James, a Democrat, of "prosecutorial misconduct."
During court proceedings, Trump lawyers got so angry that the judge called time-outs, the NYT reported. James is investigating whether the Trump Org. broke state laws in its business dealings. Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Something is loading.
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He and other Trump lawyers are now under scrutiny for their roles in promoting false claims of election fraud. Six months after the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, attorneys who promoted former President Donald Trump's false claims about election fraud are being forced to defend their actions in court. But some experts say the abuses ...
Ifill, who used to teach aspiring attorneys about their roles and responsibilities as "officers of the court," has been calling for an independent commission to produce a full accounting of how lawyers lost their way.
He and other Trump lawyers are now under scrutiny for their roles in promoting false claims of election fraud. Rudy Giuliani points to a map as he speaks to the press about various lawsuits related to the 2020 election on Nov. 19, 2020. He and other Trump lawyers are now under scrutiny for their roles in promoting false claims of election fraud.
Sidney Powell, attorney for President Donald Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false claims ...
Trump was impeached in the House for inciting an insurrection, but was acquitted in the Senate. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., who spoke at the pre-riot rally in Washington, on Monday repeated false election theft claims as he launched his campaign for the Senate.
Lawyers for pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell said that “no reasonable person” would believe that her false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.”.
In the court filing made public Monday night, Powell’s lawyers argued that Dominion’s defamation suit should be dropped because her claims were merely constitutionally protected expressions of political opinion, rather than declarations of fact. “Determining whether a statement is protected involves a two-step inquiry,” Powell’s lawyers wrote in ...
Topline. Attorney Jerome Marcus, who represented the Trump campaign in a Pennsylvania post-election lawsuit, asked the federal court to let him withdraw from the case Thursday because the president had used the lawyer to “perpetrate a crime,” as Trump allies distance themselves from the president after his supporters violently stormed the U.S.
Though the case was shut down and has not had any activity since Nov. 18, Marcus asked the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to let him withdraw from the case. Marcus said he was withdrawing because “the client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and...insists on taking action that ...
Attorney General William Barr called Trump’s conduct “inexcusable” and a “betrayal of his office” in a statement to the Associated Press Thursday, and members of Trump’s cabinet have reportedly considered invoking the 25th Amendment.
The attorney cited a statute in Pennsylvania law that stipulates attorneys can withdraw from cases if the client uses a lawyer to “perpetrate a crime or fraud” or insists on taking “repugnant” action the lawyer disagrees with, as Marcus alleged.
Trump’s supporters violently forcing their way into the U.S. Capitol —and the president’s failure to adequately condemn their actions—has provoked widespread criticism from even Trump allies, with former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and a string of other officials resigning from the Trump administration.