Michigan considers sanctions against some lawyers who filed 2020 election challenges #JustTheNews @jsolomonReports https://t.co/aT48JnhNyM
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) December 27, 2020
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is threatening lawyers who represent clients alleging voter fraud in the 2020 election with sanctions.
“I think we need to go back to a time where you can trust an attorney is making an accurate and truthful representation to the court because if they don’t, then they won’t be able to practice law anymore,” Nessel said last week.
The efforts seems to be part of a broader strategy by the left to counter litigation alleging voter fraud with litigation of their own.
As Just the News reports:
For instance, Robert Davis, a Wayne County voter, and his attorney, Andrew Paterson, filed a request last week in U.S. District Court in Detroit for sanctions against the lawyers who represented six Michigan Republicans in asking a judge to require that President Donald Trump be named the state’s winner.
The filing asks the court to penalize “the egregious conduct of the plaintiffs and their attorneys for making clearly frivolous arguments and using the judicial system to obtain unprecedented relief, to satisfy plaintiffs’ selfish and destructive political agendas.”
Michigan Attorney Matt DePerno accused Dana Nessel of trying to intimidate attorneys away from bringing legitimate lawsuits alleging election fraud.
He also said the actions are being taken so that Nessel can learn what attorneys’ work products are – the secrets of their strategies. Last week he called on Nessel to resign.
“I call on Dana Nessel to resign today because she is not upholding her oath of office…she’s trying to force attorneys like me to stop representing their client,” DePerno said.
DePerno is arguing the only case in the nation that has so far resulted in forensic examinations of Dominion Systems voting machines. A report filed by the cybersecurity task force that conducted the examination found Dominion machines are intentionally designed to create systemic fraud in elections.
Nessel had originally asked the judge in the case to block that report from being made available to the public.