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Bar Complaints Filed Against Three Attorneys Who Pressed Louie Gohmert’s ‘Frivolous and Dangerous’ Lawsuit to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election

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Disbar the goofy SOBs. Starting with (S/I/T) Louie Gohmert!!


Bar Complaints Filed Against Three Attorneys Who Pressed Louie Gohmert’s ‘Frivolous and Dangerous’ Lawsuit to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election (msn.com)
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Washington, D.C.-based attorney Patrick Malone submitted two separate bar complaints to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Office of Disciplinary counsel. The two complaints target three members of the D.C Bar: (1) Julia Z. Haller; (2) Lawrence Joseph; and (3) Brandon Johnson.

Each of the accused attorneys is named in a complaint concerning the case stylized as Gohmert v. Pence, a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) late last year which asked a federal judge to reconfigure a post-Reconstruction law in order to give then-vice president Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit was tossed by a federal district court. Then it was thrown out by a federal appellate court. Completing the hat trick, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider the lawsuit with a single sentence in early January.

Each of the three pro-GOP attorneys “seriously violated the District of Columbia Rules of Professional Conduct” and engaged in “unethical” behavior viz. the Gohmert lawsuit, the complaint alleges. Specifically, Malone claims the Texas Republican’s arguments were frivolous and presented for an “improper purpose” and that the attorneys themselves engaged in “conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice” by litigating the GOP’s concerns therein.

“It was based on facts that had no evidentiary support, and its core legal argument,” the complaint notes, “could not pass any test of good faith.”
 
A lawyer is hired to make the case. They do so in the best way they can. How can you disbar someone for taking a case and trying to win?

So, does this mean we have to disbar any attorney who represents a guilty person?

This makes NO sense.
 
A lawyer is hired to make the case. They do so in the best way they can. How can you disbar someone for taking a case and trying to win?

So, does this mean we have to disbar any attorney who represents a guilty person?

This makes NO sense.
Well, first off, I'm no lawyer, but from what I've noticed by reputable lawyers is that they find out if their client has a legal leg to stand on and if said lawyer can win the case for his or her client.

Reasons given in the op was this:
Specifically, Malone claims the Texas Republican’s arguments were frivolous and presented for an “improper purpose” and that the attorneys themselves engaged in “conduct that seriously interferes with the administration of justice” by litigating the GOP’s concerns therein.

Louie Gohmert is simply off the reservation with no paddles. He needs to be a soda jerk for the rest of his life.
 
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