Sidney Powell, a high-profile attorney who represented former President Donald Trump and supported his 2020 election fraud claims, is requesting that sanctions brought against her and her team be reversed.
Powell and her fellow attorneys submitted a 97-page appeal containing the colorful characterization to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Court on Monday following a ruling submitted by U.S. District Judge Linda Parker in the Eastern District Court of Michigan. The attorneys, who faced these penalties and sanctions over efforts to overturn election results, submitted the appeal following financial penalties and sanctions imposed against them by the latter court, according to the appeal document obtained by the Washington Examiner.
“The District Court has improved upon Voltaire’s observation that ‘[t]yrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them’: It managed to shred the Constitution at the very same time it wrapped itself in the flag,” Powell and her attorney Howard Kleinhendler wrote in the appeal.
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Powell and Kleinhendler argued in their appeal that because “millions of Americans believe the central contentions of the complaint to be true,” claims about election fraud may in fact be factual.
Parker did not mince words in her 110-page opinion regarding a lawsuit filed by six Republican voters requesting that the judge decertify Michigan’s election results.
“Despite the haze of confusion, commotion and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs’ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rule, and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way,” Parker wrote in her 110-page opinion on Aug. 25 of last year.
The judge rejected the lawsuit in December 2020, saying that “the people have spoken.”
Powell and her fellow “Kraken” litigators have also faced a $1.3 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. In early 2021, the company asked a judge to deny her efforts to dismiss the lawsuit, stating she had lied about the company in an effort to “financially enrich herself.”
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Powell, along with other Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, were issued subpoenas on Jan. 18 by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, arguing she “actively promoted claims of election fraud on behalf of former President Trump in litigation and public appearances.”
