More than 100 attorneys who tried to overthrow the 2020 election are being held accountable by The 65 Project, a dark money group that was launched Monday.
Attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani hold a news conference.
Rudy Giuliani's law license has been suspended in New York and Washington, D.C., and state bar investigations have been opened against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other far-right attorneys.
The DOJ's Inspector General and the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel are investigating Jeffrey Bossert Clark, a former Justice Department attorney.
The attorneys in the case trying to overturn Michigan's election results were reprimanded, referred to their respective boards for legal education and ordered to pay more than $175,000 in legal fees.
Powell and Giuliani were sued by voting machine companies for defamation after they spread false conspiracy theories about their machines.
After their lawsuits challenging the election results failed, the Arizona Republican Party and lawyers for the Trump campaign had to pay legal fees.
A judge referred lawyer Kaardal to a grievance committee for potential punishment, and two attorneys were reprimanded in Colorado for a lawsuit the judge deemed to be an enormous conspiracy theory.
The 65 Project will target over 100 attorneys in 26 states, and will seek to have them disbarred and punished, as well asshaming them and making them toxic in their communities and in their firms. The group is linked to David Brock, a Democratic Party stalwart, and a Democratic consultant.
A federal judge in Wisconsin denied a request by the governor and local officials to force the Trump campaign to pay their attorney fees.
The Washington Post reported in November that the Justice Department is investigating Powell's group Defending the Republic and its practices. The far-right attorney's legal actions trying to overthrow the election results were funded by the group and its political action committee.
Many attorneys denied wrongdoing after the election. Powell and her co-counsel in the Michigan case made non-frivolous legal claims in a February court brief.
More than 60 lawsuits were filed by Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 election, ranging from disputes with minor voting provisions to accusations of fraud. The GOP-linked lawyers lost every single case they were involved in, including the one in Pennsylvania that asked the state not to count some ballots that were missing proof of identification. Jones Day, which represented GOP lawmakers in a Pennsylvania voting law case, released a statement clarifying that it was not involved in the efforts. After it was reported that she had aided in Trump's efforts, Mitchell resigned from her firm.
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President Donald Trump failed in his attempts to overturn the election.
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