Petition to NM high court seeks probe of Trump lawyers (Dems seek to punish lawyers who sought review of 2020 electoral votes)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | June 30, 2022 | Dan Boyd

[CedarDave]

SANTA FE – The attorneys who filed a last-ditch lawsuit on behalf of President Donald Trump’s campaign in an attempt to stop New Mexico’s 2020 election results from being finalized could face investigation and possible discipline, under a court petition filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court petition, filed on behalf of six New Mexico attorneys, says a probe would also shed light on how New Mexico fit into a national Trump campaign scheme that has drawn scrutiny from a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

But the 31-page petition mostly focuses on whether the two attorneys who filed the December 2020 lawsuit in federal court in New Mexico on behalf of Trump’s campaign should be disbarred or face other discipline.

Those attorneys are Mark Caruso, an Albuquerque personal injury attorney, and Texas-based attorney Michael Smith.

“Purposeful evasion of exclusive provisions of New Mexico’s election challenge and recount statutes and this Supreme Court’s exclusive jurisdiction presents colorable grounds for an investigation into whether attorney discipline is needed,” the petition says.

The Supreme Court petition, which asks that a special counsel be appointed to lead the investigation and that all records be publicly released at the probe’s conclusion, was filed by John Wertheim, a lawyer and former state Democratic Party chairman.

... a memo from former Vice President Mike Pence’s legal counsel Greg Jacob [was] submitted as evidence in the new Supreme Court petition.

In that memo, Jacob says Trump attorney John Eastman, a Santa Fe resident, proposed the vice president could delay reading the electoral certificates for fives states – including New Mexico – until legislators in those states could certify which of the competing slate of electors for each state was “true and correct” in their claims of victory.

[CedarDave]

The Deep State is intent on punishing anyone who casts doubt on Biden's 2020 victory.

[CedarDave]

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[NWFree]

Libtards never met a frivolous lawsuit against anything Trump they didn’t like 🤪

[Bob434]

shall the right punish everyone involved in questioning bush’
s win over al gore?

[mass55th]

How pathetic, and desperate.

[mykroar]

The Deep State is intent on punishing anyone who casts doubt on Biden's 2020 victory usurpation.

Fixed

[Savage Beast]

Those people REALLY don't want truth to come out!

And they REALLY hate the man who vowed to make America great again and clean up Washington!

[gathersnomoss]

Evil dicks.

[blackdog]

A sign of failing government and they will only go down if the country goes with them. Like a drowning Beltway trying to pull the lifeguard down with them.

[CedarDave]

See also this link:
FBI Ambushes Trump Election Lawyer John Eastman as He’s Exiting Restaurant with His Wife, Seizes His Phone (VIDEO)

and this keyword:
John Eastman

[Freest Republican]

IMO this started with the Trump Accountability Project threatening anyone whom represented Trump with black balling.

He ends up with over the hill Rudy etc..... and not the best of the best.

This while same best of the best ambitious youngsters can’t get to Gitmo fast enough to defend terrorists.

In some regards it makes those brave enough to take up the cases easier targets.

Would they be doing the same here if these individuals were of the white shoe variety?

Message received it is worse defending Trump than defending Al Bombed and slaughtered thousands radical islamist.

Awful

[GMLORGMD]

I’m an attorney who volunteered for two weeks in Philadelphia for the Trump campaign after the election collecting witness statements from witnesses all around PA - to this day I am astounded by the fraud that took place and there is no doubt in my mind that the election was systematically stolen. I wouldn’t be surprised if I eventually get a knock on my door or have my license investigated. Completely unAmerican - and frankly, Stalinist.

[Boomer]

Everyone knows Biden lost just like everyone knows Big Mike was born a male.

Fabricating a new reality doesn’t not change the real reality.

Marxist democrats have gone full Stalinist. The punishment should fit that crime.

[LegendHasIt]

Thanks for the ping, Dave.

Ya know, in the old days of NM, people knew how to deal with these corrupt officials.