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.
I second that opinion. Just another deep state, GOPe stooge.
“I fear that Trump is one of those bosses who goes with the advice of whoever sucks up to him the most.”
Of course. That is how he became a billionaire and won the presidency twice. He always listened to fools. It is easy. Why don’t you try it.
By the way, Lin Wood was never his lawyer.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Silent coup
Yes
Well said.
Linn Wood sucked up to Trump and Trump rejected him. So much for your judgement.
He ripped off Kyle Rittenhouse and grifted on his behalf while leaving Kyle in jail to rot.
Your hate diminishes you.
“Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump’s continued false claims that he defeated Joe Biden.”
Journalism is dead at the alphabet networks. No surprise here. Has CBS ever apologized for Leslie Stahl’s insistence that the Obama administration never spied on Trump’s campaign?
Thank you for posting this. Every Freeper who supported these nitwits should read it and take notice. Behind all the TV theatrics we saw from these people was a total lack of substance in any of their wild claims.
Lin Wood, who discouraged GOP voter turnout in those two GA runoffs that handed the dems the Senate? THAT Lin Wood?
Who can say with a straight face this guy didn’t bring all this onto himself?
It is not a ‘false claim’.
Trump won the 2020 election, as the 80 million people who voted for him know with absolute certainty. No amount of left wing sermonizing and denials will ever change anyone’s opinion.
It may take some time, but the truth always outs. Trump and his voters will be vindicated by history.
OUTRAGEOUS!
Hillary still has her license. So does Mueller. They committed treason.
The Communist BS network said:
“Trump’s continued false claims that he defeated Joe Biden.”
The rule of opposites.
The opposite of what the mass media tells you is the truth.
How are their actions tyrannical? What law did they violate in their actions?
You confuse being a conservative with being a Trump supporter. The man is no conservative. He simply took up the GOP because he wasn’t going to win as a Dem.
I am quite conservative. I am not going to vote for someone his age. Ever.
How can you disbar an attorney for “pushing” his client’s case?
We don’t disbar attorneys who “push” the argument that the rapist didn’t do it, or the pedophile with the video evidence was really someone else.
This is really amazing. I wish people here would stop making so many constitutional arguments when the Constitution is so obviously no longer in effect.
Trump is an angry old fool.
Voting for him is a mistake. He will cause the demise of any conservative movement in this country. If you want AOC running stuff, vote for Trump.
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