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Lawyers across the country urge bar associations to investigate Trump’s legal team.
New York Times ^ | December 7, 2020 | Alan Feuer

Posted on 12/07/2020 11:45:08 AM PST by ransomnote

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 Trump and his Republican allies have lost or withdrawn from nearly 50 legal challenges to this year’s election, including five in five different states within about three hours on Friday evening alone.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.

“Mr. Giuliani’s aim is obvious,” the letter said. “To fuel Mr. Trump’s campaign to delegitimize the outcome of the election.”

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To: isthisnickcool

Overall, except for the one fellow, all the lawyers I have met are total messes. Parasites.
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I am sure sorry to hear that. They had a bad enough reputation to begin with. Apparently they have gotten worse.


41 posted on 12/07/2020 12:21:42 PM PST by KittyKares (Trump won the election)
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To: ransomnote

Only members of the party in good standing will get jobs and promotions.

Where have I heard that before?


42 posted on 12/07/2020 12:21:43 PM PST by Tzimisce ( )
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To: ransomnote

OMG, there are 1500 lawyers from around the country urging the bar to investigate Trump’s legal team? Damn, there are more lawyers in L.A. county than that. The national bar asso. says there are over 177,000 lawyers in California. Fake news try’s to create a “nothing there” story.


43 posted on 12/07/2020 12:22:22 PM PST by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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To: ransomnote

So if a lawyer proclaims his client innocent, and his client is found guilty, should that lawyer be disciplined?


44 posted on 12/07/2020 12:25:50 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: ransomnote

Lawyers from the cesspool, a level even lower than the swamp, but not by much


45 posted on 12/07/2020 12:30:23 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: Nifster

Irony is lost on those reprobates isn’t it ?


46 posted on 12/07/2020 12:30:39 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 10/17/78 to 11/24/84 )
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To: ransomnote

Nice and convenient for them to put names on a list along with cities where they practice.

Lawrence Tribe. What a surprise.

Marc Elias - not on it yet.

Michael Cohen - not on it yet.

Andrew Weissmann - not on it yet.

Robert Mueller - not on it yet.


47 posted on 12/07/2020 12:30:39 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis.)
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To: ransomnote

There are 1.33 million lawyers in the U.S.


48 posted on 12/07/2020 12:32:33 PM PST by aspasia
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To: ransomnote

Having dismissed in both a legal and common-sense phrasing (statist judges refuse to look at the case and rule, essentially, go away kid) they intend to prevent further truthtelling by punishing the whistleblowers.

Facts and truth have no place in their world schema.


49 posted on 12/07/2020 12:32:49 PM PST by No.6
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To: aspasia

That’s at least a million too many and the damn universities keep cranking out more of the parasites.


50 posted on 12/07/2020 12:34:22 PM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: ransomnote

Scum bag lawyers worried whether Pres. Trump hired scum bag lawyers?


51 posted on 12/07/2020 12:36:37 PM PST by antidemoncrat (Biden's )
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To: SmokingJoe

“Zealous representation” needs to be reigned in and penalized up to and including disbarment, with emphasis on the latter. This also applies to the fact trier!


52 posted on 12/07/2020 12:37:29 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ransomnote

The media always called Reagan the same thing. That changes back when a communist is installed. Then it’s “the president.”


53 posted on 12/07/2020 12:37:48 PM PST by Luke21 (Elections you say? We get them next election? )
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To: No.6

Having dismissed in both a legal and common-sense phrasing (statist judges refuse to look at the case and rule, essentially, go away kid) they intend to prevent further truthtelling by punishing the whistleblowers.

Facts and truth have no place in their world schema.
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Yes, leaving only scorched earth in their wake. The truth becomes whatever they allow to be spoken or written about without destroying the speaker/writer.


54 posted on 12/07/2020 12:38:15 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

A Republic of Laws has become a republic of lawyers.


55 posted on 12/07/2020 12:55:54 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Appropriate edit
thanks


56 posted on 12/07/2020 12:57:26 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: ransomnote; Homer_J_Simpson

Good evening.

Could patriots get the list of attorneys from the NYT that want to prosecute their political opponents? Not saying they are seditious, or vindictive...

Or anti-American.

Just looking for “justice.” Social justice don’t you know.

So I would like a list. Preferably those attorneys close by my AO.

Oh, when was the last state, fed AG or DA that was assissinated? Remember? Was it the Gambino family who was trying to correct an “injustice?”. Maybe Genovese? Maybe Fidel?

Don’t know, but a couple of Kennedys know. And one of the Kennedys have been sober for 14 years.

Looks like 1861, blood will be spilled.

5.56mm


57 posted on 12/07/2020 1:03:19 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: ransomnote

Then also investigate all of those 1500 lawyers as well - they are trying to make the process the punishment for all of Trump’s lawyers, just for political purposes. They are also trying to interfere in the attorney-client relationship, which is definitely a violation of every single state’s rules of legal ethics.


58 posted on 12/07/2020 1:03:21 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”)
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To: McGavin999

Better be careful around those lawyers. I know one who goes armed. He carries a S&W Safety Hammerless in .32 S&W. He let me look at it once. There was so much play in the frame hinge the the cylinder wouldn’t index reliably. Bolt stop was extremely worn.


59 posted on 12/07/2020 1:19:15 PM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: cuz1961

Yup


60 posted on 12/07/2020 1:29:54 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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