Posted on 07/05/2023 1:39:45 PM PDT by Ennis85
Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump's continued false claims that he defeated Joe Biden.
On Tuesday, Wood asked officials in his home state of Georgia to "retire" his law license in light of "disciplinary proceedings pending against me." In the request, made in a letter and posted on his Telegram account, Wood acknowledges that he is "prohibited from practicing law in this state and in any other state or jurisdiction and that I may not reapply for admission."
Wood, a licensed attorney in Georgia since 1977, did not immediately respond to an email Wednesday seeking comment on the letter. A listing on the website for the State Bar of Georgia accessed on Wednesday showed him as retired and with no disciplinary infractions on his record.
In the wake of the 2020 election, Trump praised Wood as doing a "good job" filing legal challenges seeking to overturn his loss, though Trump's campaign at times distanced itself from him. Dozens of lawsuits making such allegations were rejected by the courts across the country.
Officials in Georgia had been weighing whether to disbar Wood over his efforts, holding a disciplinary trial earlier this year. Wood sued the state bar in 2022, claiming the bar's request that he undergo a mental health evaluation as part of its probe violated his constitutional rights, but a federal appeals court tossed that ruling, saying Wood failed to show there was "bad faith" behind the request.
In 2021, the Georgia secretary of state's office opened an investigation into where Wood had been living when he voted early in person in the 2020 general election, prompted by Wood's announcement on Telegram that he had moved to South Carolina. Officials ruled that Wood did not violate Georgia election laws.
Wood, who purchased three former plantations totaling more than $16 million, moved to South Carolina several years ago, and unsuccessfully ran for chairman of that state's GOP in 2021.
In May, a Michigan watchdog group filed a complaint against Wood and eight other Trump-aligned lawyers alleging they had committed misconduct and should be disciplined for filing a lawsuit challenging Mr. Biden's 2020 election win in that state. A court previously found the attorneys' lawsuit had abused the court system.
Wood, whose name was on the 2020 Michigan lawsuit, has insisted that the only role he played was telling fellow attorney Sidney Powell he was available if she needed a seasoned litigator. Powell defended the lawsuit and said lawyers sometimes have to raise what she called "unpopular issues."
Other attorneys affiliated with efforts to keep Trump in power following his 2020 election loss have faced similar challenges. Attorney John Eastman, architect of that strategy, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having then-Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Mr. Biden's victory.
This is really frightening. Project 65.
Another satisfied Trump Attorney. Lol.
Did he win any of the election cases he brought?
The process is the punishment.
And the media provides cover for a tyrannical government bent on persecuting its political enemies.
I fear that Trump is one of those bosses who goes with the advice of whoever sucks up to him the most.
Fighting the Uniparty is as likely to succeed as fighting Stalin from within the Soviet Union was.
Wood never worked for Trump.
You are one mean ass creep.
LOL?
I fail to see what is so damned funny about this. I get the distinct impression you think this is just fine with you because it is your ox that isn’t getting gored.
You tell me I’m wrong and I’ll listen.
The insaneiacts in the deep state are going for scorched earth. They are trembling with great fear!
So, hillary, linked to many questionable deaths, still has a lawyer shingle, but a man pursuing an illegal election, has to take his shingle down?
this smells worse than crumbs of limburger cheese in the folds of a fat lesbian!!
PURE EVIL!
He was a nut case.
Very interesting. I had not heard of this before, but its existence is not surprising. A combination of lawfare and cancel culture.
This is how the Deep State operates.
He goes who he likes seeing on TV
The ABA, AMA, APA, etc. = Domestic Terror organization.
One of the notable features of the 2016 Trump legal challenges is he could not hire experienced election law lawyers.
Those who signed on initially quickly dropped out due overwhelming career pressure and potential ostracism.
This is the way the Regime perpetuates itself and destroys any challenge.
Notice who in FR cheers this on, and who they support.
Did he make his $billion? Hannity said he would.
Pretty hard to win a case that the courts refuse to hear.
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