Kraken Antics Earn Sidney Powell Attorney Discipline Action
The 'find out' is a bitch.
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Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell got some good news and some bad news yesterday.
On the plus side, Justice David Cohen of New York State Supreme Court dismissed voting technology company Smartmatic’s defamation claims against Powell and her Big Lie fellow traveler Jeanine Pirro in the larger case against Rudy Giuliani, Fox News, and hosts Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo. Congrats, Sid!
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On the less plus side, the Texas Commission for Law Discipline just sued Powell in the District Court of Dallas County Texas seeking discovery pursuant to complaints filed by multiple lawyers and Michigan’s Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.
“The acts and omissions of Respondent, as hereinafter alleged, constitute professional misconduct,” the Commission writes, before launching into a description of Powell’s interpretive dance cum legal campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“Respondent had no basis to believe the lawsuits she filed were not frivolous,” they argue, adding that “the filing of these lawsuits violated Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11.”
The Commission was unimpressed by Powell’s failure to dismiss the Michigan kraken tentacle when the case had been mooted by the certification of the electoral votes — that’s the case in which she was whacked with sanctions and failed to get the Sixth Circuit to let her get out of them last week.
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The Commission was similarly not chill about that time she cropped out the signature line of an official document in Georgia and then claimed it was undated.
In the complaint, which was flagged by Courthouse News, the Commission alleges that Powell’s conduct violated multiple rules of professional conduct by bringing a proceeding without rational belief that it was non-frivolous, unreasonably delaying the resolution, making a false statement to a tribunal, and engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.
The Commission seeks a judgment that Powell engaged in professional misconduct and “that this Honorable Court determine and impose an appropriate sanction.”
So, you know, kind of a mixed bag for Sidney Powell yesterday, all things considered.
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Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.
