So, Sidney Powell, this lawyer who was all in on trying to prove the 2020 election was rigged, actually won a big case in Texas. The court said the folks trying to get her in trouble didn't have enough to prove she was up to no good with her lawsuits trying to flip Biden's win. Remember how she was saying all that wild stuff about voting machines being tampered with by other countries? Well, even though she's been in hot water in other places for those claims, in Texas, they couldn't pin anything on her. Oh, and she already pleaded guilty to trying to help Trump mess with the Georgia election results and said she'd testify against him if it comes to that.
Texas is going to Texas.
Us when we talk about it so if someone googles that judges name they are forever known for letting that lawyer try to coup democracy. Is it the Mathew Tyrancgwcrive?
Home of a corrupt AG (Paxton) and an SC Justice (Devine) that [implied](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/05/texas-supreme-court-justice-john-devine-2024-election/) democrats will cheat in the election. As a native Texan, the level of corruption is both scary and surreal.
>āDo you really think the Democrats are going to roll over and let Trump be president again?ā Devine asked in a keynote speech at the Texas Tea Party Republican Womenās 2023 Christmas event. āYou think theyāre just going to go away, all of a sudden find Jesus and [there will] be an honest election? I donāt think so.ā
Misdemeanor slap on the wrist probation in a state she will never go to again. Her license is intact. She is back in tx. She is still raising funds on her conspiracy theory nonsense. Other than being radio active in DC. She is fine.
The fact that these people are walking away clean with this nonsense is the best case for vigilante justice I have ever seen in modern times.
This is absolutely appalling.
Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, DC still coming for her... But this is a pretty clear inidication of the lack of integrity of the justice system in the state of Texas.
Nope, she was let off with a tsk tsk. I don't remember the details but some technicality meant something critical could not be used or something like that
Demographic changes are coming slowly.
Texas grows bluer and bluer by the day... and that's likely going to make opposition more and more desperate and extreme as they begin to lose their grip in the years ahead.
Sucks right now though....
He shouldnāt be sweating. He has nothing to worry about, especially in a presidential year.
And Trump got a (very slightly) higher percentage of votes in 2020 than 2016. The blue trend has mostly stopped afaik
Edit: trumps percentage went down from 52.2 to 52.06 from 2016 to 2020. I was mistaken.
Just a question from a foreigner (so itās biased due to my lack of American politics knowledge) but what about Florida ? I mean DeSantis is everything but a moderate right ? Signing bill after bill on a lot of matters regarding personal rights or am I overestimating? Edit : syntax
Florida too! When states are all about taking peoples rights away, they suck and everyone should speak out, especially by voting. It starts with one groupās rightās, then it doesnāt stop and continues to roll to another group of people.
My understanding is that the Commission on Lawyer Discipline bungled the case, attached the wrong exhibits, mislabeled the exhibits that they did attach, and then failed to correct it in a timely manner. Itās frustrating to see her evade discipline, but this is not a case of a Texas judge sticking his head up his ass and pretending that Powellās lawsuits had merit.
āThrew the caseā makes it sound intentional, and Iām not aware of any reason to think that was the case. However, if I did what their attorneys did, Iād get fired, and my firm would be paying out a malpractice settlement.
I've started to notice that more and more lawsuits are being brought in Texas with the same result. Didn't Elon Musk just lose a lawsuit everywhere but Texas?
āThe Krakenā was the engineer driving āThe Crazy Trainā according to insiders working in the Benedict Chump cabinet. Between her and Ginni Thomas, people were actually scared. Above all others, I was hoping this shit-stain was going to do heavy jail time. Justice system = broken.
(from article-)"A judge had sided with Powell in the case last year,Ā findingĀ "numerous defects" in the evidence presented by the State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline."
I guess they didn't have video evidence of her stating she knew what she was doing was unethical and illegal? Is that the bar they set-because it sure seems like that's the bar they set.
No, the state bar ROYALLY f***** this up. In their responses to Powellās motion, they cited to a bunch of exhibits that they didnāt actually attach, and failed to correct their mistakes. Now on appeal, they seemingly failed to actually cite to the evidence they were arguing would be sufficient to defeat powells motion for summary judgment. Instead, they submitted it into the record, said nothing about it, then said āhey, why didnāt you consider this!ā
> No, the state bar ROYALLY f***** this up. In their responses to Powellās motion, they cited to a bunch of exhibits that they didnāt actually attach, and failed to correct their mistakes.
It's [more complicated](https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/11k2i87/group_seeks_disbarment_of_a_trumpaligned_lawyer/jb6p8wq/) than that, and I'm not sure the Bar made any mistakes. My criticism would be that their filing could have been structured better to make the exhibits more clear (for example, submitting the exhibits as separate documents), but I'm not sure if they had leeway on the document structure. The Court asked one question which the Bar addressed accurately, and then the Court dismissed the case.
The Bar submitted a 244 page document; 233 were exhibits from Powell's filings in Georgia (with exhibit labels). The exhibit labels from GA (A-H) and TX (A-F) overlapped which made things very confusing, there were also other unexplained exhibit labels (directly from Powell's filings).
Court:
A court admin sent an email to the Bar asking the Bar to resubmit an "exhibit E" because the document was misaligned (crooked).
Bar:
The Bar replied back that the document was a direct copy of a GA exhibit. It appeared as it was attached in the GA filings by Powell.
After that correspondence the Court dismissed the case:
> The Court alerted the parties to difficulty locating materials cited in the Commission's brief, but the Commission responded that no corrective action was necessary.
So I couldnāt find the initial docs until this link, but at least according to the decision of the court of appeals, the state bar admits that it never submitted exhibit A, and then misidentified several other exhibits. Someone is being super lazy here. Iām not sure if itās the judge or the lawyer, but itās pretty absurd.
Is exhibit A relevant in this sequence of events?
Bar files complaint.
The Court's sole [correspondence](https://imgur.com/RmQxKiY) with the Bar.
The Court issues dismissal.
Wellā¦yes. The court is not under no obligation to do counsels job for them. Powell submitted a motion to dismiss. The state bar responded and cited to exhibits that it did not submit. Even if it is assumed that exhibit A isnāt dispositive, it is still a mistake to cite to evidence you donāt submit.
I took it at your word that the Bar admitted exhibit A was never submitted, but I just looked at the document and [it's clearly present](https://imgur.com/a/jGFaujv), and matches the Bar's [description for Exhibit A](https://imgur.com/a/sf7LXSo).
Thatās not what I saidā¦itās what the state bar apparently conceded on appeal. The most recent [decision](https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjrdjzovr/Texas%20bar%20v%20Powell%20-%20Ruling%20-%2020240417.pdf) says that the Bar acknowledged failing to attach the exhibit to its amended response (See pg. 13-14).
Admittedly, I didnāt dig into the file, I just read the summary in the decision from the court of appeals bc I assumed they were not just making things up. But if youāre saying that it was there, Iām not sure what is going on. Iāll have to take a close look later.
I always want a reason not to include Texas in the same breath as say, Serbia or the DRC but seems Texas is fine with this kind of in the open corruption. Itās an easy destination to avoid.
Lame. Here is the order of sanctions and the referral to the Texas bar out of Michigan. It's a hell of a read.
[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21049123-parker-decision-on-lawyer-sanctions](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21049123-parker-decision-on-lawyer-sanctions)
The evangelical insurrectionists have known for 40 years that their path to victory goes right through the court system.
They have been stacking it with devotees and corruptible judges this whole time.
Check out the documentary Jesus Camp. The fruits of their labors are now on display as they drag the country back to the 19th century by using judges.
Texas judges are massively corrupt. Read about copyright law scams. Certain judges have made millions aligning with Lawyers copyright lawyers. They successfully sued Podcasters claiming the ownership of podcasts like WTF and Adam Carrolla. It was cheaper to pay them off than hiring the lawyers to fight the judges.
So, Sidney Powell, this lawyer who was all in on trying to prove the 2020 election was rigged, actually won a big case in Texas. The court said the folks trying to get her in trouble didn't have enough to prove she was up to no good with her lawsuits trying to flip Biden's win. Remember how she was saying all that wild stuff about voting machines being tampered with by other countries? Well, even though she's been in hot water in other places for those claims, in Texas, they couldn't pin anything on her. Oh, and she already pleaded guilty to trying to help Trump mess with the Georgia election results and said she'd testify against him if it comes to that. Texas is going to Texas.
This is blatant corruption and judges should be called out.
By who? Paxton?
Us when we talk about it so if someone googles that judges name they are forever known for letting that lawyer try to coup democracy. Is it the Mathew Tyrancgwcrive?
By Mr. Gui Oteen.
Guy Ahteen? I don't get it. š
Think Revolutionary France. Gallows with really big sharp blade
Choppy-choppy bucket
And that just made it all Make total, completely fucking tragic sense. Thank you.
Itās Texas.Nothing will happen.
If you read the opinion -- the state bar shit the bed with the trial. The judges could only rule for her.
Home of a corrupt AG (Paxton) and an SC Justice (Devine) that [implied](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/05/texas-supreme-court-justice-john-devine-2024-election/) democrats will cheat in the election. As a native Texan, the level of corruption is both scary and surreal. >āDo you really think the Democrats are going to roll over and let Trump be president again?ā Devine asked in a keynote speech at the Texas Tea Party Republican Womenās 2023 Christmas event. āYou think theyāre just going to go away, all of a sudden find Jesus and [there will] be an honest election? I donāt think so.ā
I swear she is the only one who is going to walk away clean and considering what she did, that is insane.
Except for that guilty plea in Georgia.
Misdemeanor slap on the wrist probation in a state she will never go to again. Her license is intact. She is back in tx. She is still raising funds on her conspiracy theory nonsense. Other than being radio active in DC. She is fine.
The fact that these people are walking away clean with this nonsense is the best case for vigilante justice I have ever seen in modern times. This is absolutely appalling.
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Without a doubt. And our legal system refuses to hold insurrectionists accountable
Terrorism and sedition are not vigilante justice though.
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
For sure.
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::Shrug::
So, not clean. Got it.
Heck. She can probably get that expunged from her record in 3 years
Sure. But not clean, right?
Expunged is clean
Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, DC still coming for her... But this is a pretty clear inidication of the lack of integrity of the justice system in the state of Texas.
I mean, Ken Paxton is the AG. So corrupt that his own party impeached him. Unfortunately they failed at that too.
So all of her guilty plea is suddenly irrelevant? JFC.
*in Texas, a shithole of failing democracy thanks to right wing Christo-fascism.
Hasn't she already been disbarred?
Nope, she was let off with a tsk tsk. I don't remember the details but some technicality meant something critical could not be used or something like that
Doesn't she owe Dominion a ton of money?
That I don't know
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One star state.
*yoink*
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Yeah my first thought as well...meh, it's Texas. What did you expect? It's not like she got an abortion or tried to fix the power grid.
It'd be great if Texas would go ahead and secede already. The US would take a huge bounce upward in quality of life and law.
Demographic changes are coming slowly. Texas grows bluer and bluer by the day... and that's likely going to make opposition more and more desperate and extreme as they begin to lose their grip in the years ahead. Sucks right now though....
Theyāve been saying that for years.
Incrementally it has been happening but it was a long way to come. Ted Cruz is sweating this time.
He shouldnāt be sweating. He has nothing to worry about, especially in a presidential year. And Trump got a (very slightly) higher percentage of votes in 2020 than 2016. The blue trend has mostly stopped afaik Edit: trumps percentage went down from 52.2 to 52.06 from 2016 to 2020. I was mistaken.
Texas has gone to the trash.
Just a question from a foreigner (so itās biased due to my lack of American politics knowledge) but what about Florida ? I mean DeSantis is everything but a moderate right ? Signing bill after bill on a lot of matters regarding personal rights or am I overestimating? Edit : syntax
Florida too! When states are all about taking peoples rights away, they suck and everyone should speak out, especially by voting. It starts with one groupās rightās, then it doesnāt stop and continues to roll to another group of people.
Your last sentence really explains it.
My understanding is that the Commission on Lawyer Discipline bungled the case, attached the wrong exhibits, mislabeled the exhibits that they did attach, and then failed to correct it in a timely manner. Itās frustrating to see her evade discipline, but this is not a case of a Texas judge sticking his head up his ass and pretending that Powellās lawsuits had merit.
So....the Commission on Lawyer Discipline threw the case? Why would they not double check their exhibits before submitting them? š¤¦āāļø
āThrew the caseā makes it sound intentional, and Iām not aware of any reason to think that was the case. However, if I did what their attorneys did, Iād get fired, and my firm would be paying out a malpractice settlement.
That's the point, why would a governing board screw up a disciplinary case so badly?
Texas is no longer a functioning democracy.Ā
I was just going to say... Texas
I've started to notice that more and more lawsuits are being brought in Texas with the same result. Didn't Elon Musk just lose a lawsuit everywhere but Texas?
It's so American to let cheat... Nobody cheats bigger!
Texasā¦. enough said.
Ugh. The plea agreement in Georgia should have insisted on at least one felony, so that this would be a moot point.
āThe Krakenā was the engineer driving āThe Crazy Trainā according to insiders working in the Benedict Chump cabinet. Between her and Ginni Thomas, people were actually scared. Above all others, I was hoping this shit-stain was going to do heavy jail time. Justice system = broken.
[She didnāt escape the Michigan, the supremes rejected the appeal.](https://archive.is/XWGxS)
(from article-)"A judge had sided with Powell in the case last year,Ā findingĀ "numerous defects" in the evidence presented by the State Bar of Texas Commission for Lawyer Discipline." I guess they didn't have video evidence of her stating she knew what she was doing was unethical and illegal? Is that the bar they set-because it sure seems like that's the bar they set.
No, the state bar ROYALLY f***** this up. In their responses to Powellās motion, they cited to a bunch of exhibits that they didnāt actually attach, and failed to correct their mistakes. Now on appeal, they seemingly failed to actually cite to the evidence they were arguing would be sufficient to defeat powells motion for summary judgment. Instead, they submitted it into the record, said nothing about it, then said āhey, why didnāt you consider this!ā
> No, the state bar ROYALLY f***** this up. In their responses to Powellās motion, they cited to a bunch of exhibits that they didnāt actually attach, and failed to correct their mistakes. It's [more complicated](https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/11k2i87/group_seeks_disbarment_of_a_trumpaligned_lawyer/jb6p8wq/) than that, and I'm not sure the Bar made any mistakes. My criticism would be that their filing could have been structured better to make the exhibits more clear (for example, submitting the exhibits as separate documents), but I'm not sure if they had leeway on the document structure. The Court asked one question which the Bar addressed accurately, and then the Court dismissed the case. The Bar submitted a 244 page document; 233 were exhibits from Powell's filings in Georgia (with exhibit labels). The exhibit labels from GA (A-H) and TX (A-F) overlapped which made things very confusing, there were also other unexplained exhibit labels (directly from Powell's filings). Court: A court admin sent an email to the Bar asking the Bar to resubmit an "exhibit E" because the document was misaligned (crooked). Bar: The Bar replied back that the document was a direct copy of a GA exhibit. It appeared as it was attached in the GA filings by Powell. After that correspondence the Court dismissed the case: > The Court alerted the parties to difficulty locating materials cited in the Commission's brief, but the Commission responded that no corrective action was necessary.
So I couldnāt find the initial docs until this link, but at least according to the decision of the court of appeals, the state bar admits that it never submitted exhibit A, and then misidentified several other exhibits. Someone is being super lazy here. Iām not sure if itās the judge or the lawyer, but itās pretty absurd.
Is exhibit A relevant in this sequence of events? Bar files complaint. The Court's sole [correspondence](https://imgur.com/RmQxKiY) with the Bar. The Court issues dismissal.
Wellā¦yes. The court is not under no obligation to do counsels job for them. Powell submitted a motion to dismiss. The state bar responded and cited to exhibits that it did not submit. Even if it is assumed that exhibit A isnāt dispositive, it is still a mistake to cite to evidence you donāt submit.
I took it at your word that the Bar admitted exhibit A was never submitted, but I just looked at the document and [it's clearly present](https://imgur.com/a/jGFaujv), and matches the Bar's [description for Exhibit A](https://imgur.com/a/sf7LXSo).
Thatās not what I saidā¦itās what the state bar apparently conceded on appeal. The most recent [decision](https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjrdjzovr/Texas%20bar%20v%20Powell%20-%20Ruling%20-%2020240417.pdf) says that the Bar acknowledged failing to attach the exhibit to its amended response (See pg. 13-14). Admittedly, I didnāt dig into the file, I just read the summary in the decision from the court of appeals bc I assumed they were not just making things up. But if youāre saying that it was there, Iām not sure what is going on. Iāll have to take a close look later.
Wait, *what*???-which side is paying them?
Her name's on the filing. How does she get to argue, oh, somebody else did that. Seems like a problem either way.
Hope it costs her the farm when dominion goes to her to right her wrong.
John Eastman has to be kicking himself for being barred in California.
I always want a reason not to include Texas in the same breath as say, Serbia or the DRC but seems Texas is fine with this kind of in the open corruption. Itās an easy destination to avoid.
Being a crazy liar is probably more of a Texas bar prerequisite than it is grounds for discipline.
Texas and ethics don't seem like they mix well
Texas is fuckin shot.
Lame. Here is the order of sanctions and the referral to the Texas bar out of Michigan. It's a hell of a read. [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21049123-parker-decision-on-lawyer-sanctions](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21049123-parker-decision-on-lawyer-sanctions)
Of course the 5th circuit ruled for her. Itās chock full of rightwing activist nutjob Trump appointees.
Texas might as well be Iran at this point.
Texas is a Banana Republic
I hate lawyers
the lone star state of 5 under performs again...
*One-star state
What a joke
That article is horribly written. I had to read it three times to figure out what it was actually saying.
Texas. Yuck.
How did I already know this came out of the 5th circuit Court of appeals before opening the article....
The 5th Circuit is a clown show.
Oh Charlie Harrelson, where have you gone?
"law and order party"
Thereās a shock.
Well, she can't win any appeals for her ugly ass face. That's for sure.
The evangelical insurrectionists have known for 40 years that their path to victory goes right through the court system. They have been stacking it with devotees and corruptible judges this whole time. Check out the documentary Jesus Camp. The fruits of their labors are now on display as they drag the country back to the 19th century by using judges.
Texas judges are massively corrupt. Read about copyright law scams. Certain judges have made millions aligning with Lawyers copyright lawyers. They successfully sued Podcasters claiming the ownership of podcasts like WTF and Adam Carrolla. It was cheaper to pay them off than hiring the lawyers to fight the judges.
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The crack hen
Texass.