Lawyers who spearheaded the legal campaign to overturn the 2020 presidential election results have been hit with sanctions in the latest judicial rebuke against those at the forefront of Donald Trump’s failed campaign to remain in office.
Linda Parker, a US district judge in Michigan, ruled on Wednesday that several lawyers, including L Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, had carried out “a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” in their lawsuit against Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of the state.
She ordered that they pay the defendants’ legal costs and receive additional legal training, and referred them for investigation to state and federal bar disciplinary authorities.