Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are on the Line If They Lie to a Judge
There’s a big difference between a) waving around a
stack of affidavits in a safe space and b) bringing your claims before a judge. We saw that difference on Tuesday in the Trump campaign’s case in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
President
Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely said
from the get-go that he “won Pennsylvania by a lot.” Now that the election has been called for
Joe Biden, lawyers for the president’s campaign and the Republican National Committee—some of them
supposedly troubled—are in the uphill position of having to explain why they are in court.
It was apparent to legal commentators that one of the lawyers arguing the Montgomery County case before Common Pleas Judge
Richard P. Haaz was not going to risk losing his law license by lying in court. Some also noted that sanctions may be issued
where frivolous lawsuits have been filed.
Daniel Goldman
@danielsgoldman
No one has the “right” to behave like a petulant child and be a sore loser. And no one has the “right” to file frivolous lawsuits. Lawyers are sanctioned for wasting the courts’ time when they do so. There is no evidence of voter fraud, and there never has been. Time to move on.
Today in court, a Pennsylvania judge asked a lawyer for Trump point-blank whether he was alleging fraud.
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https://lawandcrime.com/2020-electi...censes-are-on-the-line-if-they-lie-to-a-judge