US District Court Judge Linda Parker granted the sanctions request on Wednesday against nine pro-Trump lawyers, Powell and Wood among them, who spearheaded lawsuits claiming election fraud last year. Parker said the lawyers’ conduct “calls into question their fitness to practice law” and even “warrants a referral for investigation and …
Read More »Sidney Powell says ‘no reasonable person’ would take her election fraud claims as fact as she calls to toss $1.3bn Dominion suit
Powell’s attorneys called for dismissal in a Monday court filing, arguing that the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems was filed in the wrong jurisdiction, and that Powell’s claims about the company and its alleged role in rigging the 2020 race were covered under the First Amendment. While the attorneys …
Read More »Dominion Voting Systems suing pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell for $1.3 billion
In a 124-page complaint filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Dominion claimed they have been negatively impacted by a “viral disinformation campaign” pushed by Powell that worked to “financially enrich herself, to raise her public profile, and to ingratiate herself to Donald Trump.” Powell, along …
Read More »Trump’s legal team distances itself from Sidney Powell after she suggests that Georgia’s GOP governor conspired to help Biden win
“Sidney Powell is practicing law on her own,” senior Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis said on Sunday in a joint statement. “She is also not a lawyer for the president in his personal capacity.” Giuliani and Ellis gave no explanation for the statement. Trump last week named Powell, …
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