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Lawyer At Heart Of Zany Trump Election Conspiracies Chooses Retirement Over Disbarment

A prudent move... for a change!

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After launching himself into wingnut legal threats like the MyPillow fluffer’s pledge to sue critics of COVID misinformation and Carter Page’s defamation suit against Yahoo, and then leaning hard into Mike Pence execution fantasies, Lin Wood cast his lot with Sidney Powell’s universe of Kraken lawsuits imagining a world where Donald Trump hadn’t lost to Joe Biden.

It was a poor choice.

And a choice that ended in some serious sanctions despite some mendacious efforts to avoid responsibility for putting his name on the suit. Add in his dispute with former partners — which allegedly elevated to violent threats — and a disbarment inquiry he answered by doxxing the disciplinary committee to his “army of patriots,” and the Eleventh Circuit started wondering if Wood might need some more serious intervention.

Yesterday, Wood took the uncharacteristically graceful path:

Lin Wood

If granted leave to retire, this would end the career of a once-respected attorney whose decision to embrace MAGA craziness dragged him into an ethical quagmire that he had little hope of ever escaping. Rudy Giuliani’s fall from crusading U.S. Attorney to getting his law license yanked and making ends meet on Cameo is rightfully the most dramatic instance of a lawyer throwing away everything for Trump’s adoration, but Wood’s not far off.

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Earlier: Someone Take Lin Wood’s Keyboard Before He Gets In More Trouble
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My Pillow Guy Hires Lin Wood To Sue Anderson Cooper For Defamation Over Poison Plant COVID Drug
Lin Wood Canceled By His Peers Over The Whole ‘Execute The Veep’ Thing
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HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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