Attorneys for Donald Trump were fined $50,000 by a federal judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
Trump's lawyers pushed a political narrative in court without factual basis or any legal theory, according to Judge Donald Middlebrooks.
The judge suggested that the lawyers may need the attention of the Bar and the Disciplinary Authorities.
The sanctions came two months after Middlebrooks had thrown out the suit, describing it as a two-hundred page political manifesto.
The civil action was filed by the former president, who accused dozens of people of being involved in a conspiracy to spread a false narrative of Russian involvement in the election.
The RICO Act is a federal law that aims to combat organized crime.
Middlebrooks wrote in the order that the case was a shotgun one. Thirty-one individuals and organizations were summoned to court and had to hire lawyers. There was only one common thread against them.
Rule 11 of the federal rules of civil procedure was used by the judge to sanction four of Trump's lawyers.
They are ordered to pay a total of $50,000 in sanctions and legal fees, which was racked up by the man who filed the request.
Habba told CNBC that they would be appealing the decision. CNBC asked the other attorneys for Trump if they had anything to say.
The failures of the original complaint were obvious. Trump's attorneys added arguments in an attempt to skirt the RICO statute of limitations when they tried to dismiss the case.
Middlebrooks wrote that the choice of defendants and lack of viable legal theories of liability reflected an intention to hurt rather than to remedy legal harm.
He wrote that Habba continued to advance the claims even after the judge pointed out the deficiencies.
The judge slammed Middlebrooks as a "Clinton judge" when she included an excerpt of Habba's from that Sept. 10 interview.
The rule of law is undermined by the toxic combination of political fundraising with legal fees paid by political action committees, reckless and untrue statements by lawyers at rallies and in the media, and efforts to advance a political narrative through lawsuits without factual basis.
Rule 11 alone can stem this abuse, but lawyers are enabling it. The Bar and the Disciplinary Authorities need to be aware of aspects that are outside of the judiciary. The judge wrote that there could be additional sanctions. Rules 11 and 12 should be used to penalize and deter similar conduct by these lawyers and others.
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