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.
Right. We should be looking to history—which tends to repeat itself—and see it as a cautionary warning of the coming attractions if we allow fear and apathy to rule us.
Where did he yell? I don’t understand.
Or lecturing?
You are correct about Trump won’t be the long term solution, because this will take a long term team effort. One that outlives him. And us. But that’s a different discussion. I see no one else with the ability to win this election. And that will take a team effort as well.
Next time I enroll in a political science class I’ll remember that I’ve never questioned his intelligence I’ve questioned his approach
Just wow.
That was my very first thought when I saw the headline.
The political double standard in this country is breathtaking.
No wonder you’re only an LT.
A think a number of Republicans could win if the Republicans were united and had solid strategies on how to conduct a modern campaign and election
In the end Trump will end up being a detriment to Republicans if he continues on his current trajectory which he is sure to do
the problem, and potential solution, is the electorate ...
Lin Wood was also was a crack pot publicity hungry shyster attorney for Rittenhouse before Rittenhouse thankfully finally got better representation.
Wood is now one of a handful of crazy people that the Left loves to try to hold up as an example of how crazy people that disagree with their absurd claim that the 2020 election was not plagued with fraud.
What you have articulated is how I have now come to view the situation.
O.K.
He is the one right now that can bridge that gap. He brings in more voters than he turns off. None of the others have that draw at this point.
Also, none of the others have had to deal with the non stop smear machine of the left and the leftist bureaucracies. Or the organized vote fraud.
I doubt anyone else could have withstood the kind of deceit and organized leftie media campaign.
RDS, who I have liked, has shown he can't do it. Who else do you propose?
Well of course you would, given the content of your posts.
Let’s agree to ignore each other I’m up for that
Florida has a unique voting system. What is left out of those stories is whether any ballots cast were determined to be illegally or improperly cast. That’s the key.
Consider it done, FRiend.
I am too. But I feel a sense of shame at my inability to help stem the progression from a beautiful and orderly country, paid for with the blood of Patriots over the centuries, to what we see now, a filthy banana republic.
I feel that, as a citizen, I have failed in my stewardship, and the people I leave it to will not have the same love for it that I have had.
They will likely hate it, and it may make Patriots out of some of them.
The ones that don’t cower in fear of being at odds with the tyrannical government, that is.
Thank you for saying so. I know there are many like-minded people on this forum. Some not. But I am not just sitting back.
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