A federal judge has summoned Sidney Powell and other lawyers accused of peddling false fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 election to Detroit for a sanctions hearing.
Judge Linda Parker ordered Powell and Michigan attorneys Greg Rohl, Scott Hagerstrom, and Stefanie Junttila to appear before a judge at 2 p.m. on July 6, according to the Detroit Free Press. The decision follows a request from Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, who argued Powell’s effort to overturn Michigan‘s election victory for President Joe Biden was based on debunked lies.
In December, Powell and others sued the state in a lawsuit, King v. Whitmer, asserting widespread election fraud took place. The petition was denied in February after the defendants failed to present credible evidence that such irregularities occurred.
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“The scheme and artifice to defraud illegally and fraudulently manipulate the vote count to manufacture the ‘election’ of Joe Biden as President of the United States. The fraud was executed by many means, but the most fundamentally troubling, insidious, and egregious ploy was the systemic adaptation of old-fashioned ‘ballot-stuffing,'” Powell and her legal team wrote in the petition.
The failed bid to overturn the election results was referred to as a “Kraken” case based on Powell’s statements she would “release the Kraken” and prove voter fraud marred the November race.
Nessel announced during an end-of-year phone briefing that penalties may be warranted against members of the Trump legal team and their allies who have made “what we believe to be an intentional misrepresentation” of facts in election-related lawsuits.
“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,” she added.
Biden won the state of Michigan and its 16 electoral votes by more than 154,000 votes. More than 250 countywide audits confirmed the accuracy of the certified results, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced in March.
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Powell, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and others have been hit with defamation lawsuits from voting machine companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic over claims that they helped rig the 2020 contest. Powell is fighting to drop the litigation, arguing her claims are free speech protected by the First Amendment.
Nessel’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.
