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.
You mock people for things other people “do”? Man, you’re aces today.
The ABA has no authority over lawyers. I've been an attorney for forty years and have never even belonged to the ABA. State bar associations do have authority over attorneys, though.
David Brock - who could have guessed where he would turn up.
In the recently reported decision to grant preliminary injunction against the US gubmint contacting social media found that there was plenty of evidence of election interferrence so Lin Wood had probable cause to file cases. That is the only standard - did you have reason to believe that your case was justified.
Your are drooling and spewing and your head is spinning around.
BTW the conservative movement cause the demise of the conservative movement. I say that as a conservative.
The real enemy is not here on this sight, we just say things and read things that tick us off, by comrades....right?
There are a few.
Sick. Taking glee. Wood may deserve scorn for some things, who doesnt. But this, no. And yes, you are gleeful because anything that you hope wounds Trump is alright by you. Sick.
Precisely
sad. another patriot cancelled. but, understand the reasons. just no point in fighting a rigged game.
“Trump won the 2020 election” and Lin Wood gave people hope. However, I learned that no challenges to the 2020 election would be accepted, since the 2020 election crimes need to remain on the books in order to be addressed later like in 2025.
Video Alleged to Show Ga. Ballots Counted After Poll Watchers Were Ousted
Video footage presented by attorneys for the Trump campaign is alleged to show Georgia's Fulton County poll workers counting ballots without monitors present, attorney Jacki Pick said Thursday on Newsmax TV.
A private security firm inside Atlanta's State Farm Arena provided the surveillance video to Trump campaign lawyers at 1 a.m. ET on Thursday, Pick told Thursday's "Stinchfield."
"We just got it at 1 a.m., a big team watched it, and we were shocked at what we saw," Pick, a volunteer attorney in Georgia who presented the evidence to the state Senate earlier Thursday, told host Grant Stinchfield.
The video confirms what the campaign's witnesses have sworn to in affidavits, Pick contended.
"Yes, people were sent home, told to stop working, stop counting, but some people stayed behind: Sure enough, just as our poll watchers – well, our monitors – had said," Pick said, saying the video shows suitcases being pulled from under a table covered by a black cloth -- purportedly holding thousands of ballots.
The Epoch Times tweeted the full surveillance video Thursday afternoon:
"WATCH: Footage of State Farm Arena in #Atlanta shows that after poll monitors and media were told counting was done, four workers stayed behind to count #ballots, at times pulling out suitcases containing ballots from underneath desks. Watch full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=keANzinHWUA"In presenting the evidence to the Georgia state Senate, Pick rejected an official's claim that allegations of no poll monitor being present has been debunked, saying the video was just received Thursday and could not have already been debunked.
There was a lot squandered between Jan 2017 and Jan 2021. Otherwise there would be no need for 4 more years.
Re: 17 - The ABA has no disciplinary powers for attorneys. That’s up to FedGov and the State bars.
pretty depressing
And why should I believe a government that conducts openly fraudulent elections is going to give a fair hearing to a legitimate claim challenging those elections?
Does China do that? Or Cuba? Or Venezuela?
He had it coming - no tears for him.
He filed legal actions in bad faith in Michigan and the outcome of the sanctions hearing in Michigan was referred to the Georgia bar for possible action.
- see https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/25/powell-wood-trump-sanctions-506910
“Wood...also leveled unsubstantiated claims that Roberts is involved in a sex trafficking ring and was involved in the death of the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
- see https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/09/lin-wood-attacks-pence-roberts-468027
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The Grievance regarding Wood:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20485957/lin-wood-georgia-bar-grievance.pdf
Some more Lin Wood goodness. Wood released this interview with conspiracy theorist Ryan White:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3939286/posts
Good grief, I forgot Mark Levin had Wood on his show!
“Lin Wood on Mark Levin Show: Trump Won a 70% Plus Landslide Election – He Probably Had 400 Electoral Votes (Audio)”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3907091/posts
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