Sidney Powell And ‘Kraken’ Attorneys Must Undergo Legal Education For Attempt To Overturn 2020 Election For Trump

Feb 24, 2022, 03:13pm

Sidney Powell and her co-counsel will have to take additional legal education after an appeals court denied their request to block the sanctions against them.

Powell and her co-counsel were ordered to take at least 12 hours of continuing legal education by the judge after she called their post- election lawsuit a historic and profound abuse of the law.

The attorneys asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 14 to temporarily block the non-monetary sanctions against them while it considers a full appeal on the sanctions, before a February 25 deadline the court set for them to complete the legal classes.

Powell and her co-counsel claimed that the district court was trying to make a political statement by forcing them to take legal education.

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals said the right-wing lawyers should have asked the district court to stop the sanctions.

The district court clarified that it was too late for the lawyers to be referred to their states for potential punishment, as the court already issued the referrals in August.

Powell hasn't responded to the request for comment.

$175,250.37. The state of Michigan will get $21,964.75 and the Secretary of State will get $153 from the nine right-wing attorneys who were involved in the case. As the sanctions are being appealed, the attorneys won't have to pay that yet.

Powell brought a lawsuit in Michigan to try to overturn the results of the election, part of a larger legal campaign waged by Trump and his allies. The cases alleged widespread fraud and Powell dubbed the flurry of lawsuits the "Kraken" after the 1981 film The Clash of theTitans. The Michigan lawsuit was dismissed in December due to the fact that the complaint was not proof of election fraud, but rather an amalgam of theories, conjecture, and speculation.

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