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 only cheer on actions taken against these attorneys have taken that violate either legal statutes or the bar. Now, tell me. Who do I support.
The thing is, the AMA has no authority over doctors. It is completely unlike the ABA and the APA in that regard.
"Lin Wood’s Ex-Law Partners Claim He Was Taped Admitting to Assaults, Asserting He May Be ‘Christ Coming Back for Second Time’"
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lin-woods-ex-law-partners-claim-he-was-taped-admitting-to-assaults-asserting-he-may-be-christ-coming-back-for-second-time/
I have noticed that operatives appear to send out attorneys to grab a microphone and become prominent when there’s an area in the news where they may have some liability they want to defend against.
The attorneys go around and pro bono or for cheap offer their services to prospective claimants in the area they are trying to muddy. They may end up gathering loads of suits or loads of claimants—and then they manage to be entirely ineffective.
Success, in the eyes of the operatives, achieved.
I think that was done around the election in 2020 (Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, etc.) and around the jabs the last couple of years, both generally and in representation of military members.
Hate? More hate has been spewed at me in the last hour than I ever spew at you guys. I don’t hate. It’s a waste of energy.
I will mock you for Trumps stupid comments, his horrible hiring decisions, his ego, and just about every other thing he talks about at 2:30 AM.
Yes, this is a completely legit organization.
https://www.americanbar.org/topics/diversity/
Who wrote this drivel?
Trump’s record of personal losses is beginning to rival that of the French army.
Did the BLM lawyers who through Molotov Cocktails during the Summer of Rage get disbarred?
threw
“You confuse being a conservative with being a Trump supporter.”
They’re like petulant children.
You haven’t said who I support.
Yep, same civil rights destroying group.
Gotta have a legitimate claim.
If an attorney zealously represents terrorists, murderers, rapists or child molesters he is praised, but if an attorney dares to represent Orange Man Bad he must be punished!
Nobody in the Republican base likes or trusts these a55holes any longer. They have squandered every opportunity to win over the last 30 years. To hell with GOP leadership. It is time to purge the party of these surrender monkeys like we did with Liz Cheney.
FOAD.
After that. He went nutty in 2020 Election Cycle.
Hey, you’re here! Saying stupid sh$t!
Some things never change. It’s good to be home.
Lo! The gangs all here!
Kraken kills all. It’s more potent than Agent Orange.
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