Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph Grodin is among over 1,500 lawyers and retired judges who signed a scathing letter calling on bar associations to condemn, and disciplinary authorities to investigate, lawyers who the letter says are behind the President’s “barrage of litigation” that “is a pretext for a campaign to undermine public confidence in the outcome of the 2020 election, which inevitably will subvert constitutional democracy.” (See also Jacqueline Thomsen’s coverage for The National Law Journal.)
Calling the election lawsuits an “historic abuse of the judicial process,” the signatories assert the President’s lawyers’ conduct is “a disgrace” that “demeans the legal profession and the multitudes of lawyers of all political persuasions who daily serve their clients and the public honorably.” The letter further says, “A license to practice law is not a license to lie to the public on behalf of a client, whether doing so endangers one individual or the entire body politic.”
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