The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to reconsider an appeal to overturn sanctions against several pro-Trump attorneys.
Sidney Powell, one of the lawyers in question, filed a lawsuit contesting the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. In an entry dated April 15 on the case docket, the Supreme Court rejected Ms. Powell's request for a rehearing, thus upholding the sanctions against her and six other lawyers involved in the Michigan lawsuit.
The unsuccessful lawsuit aimed for emergency measures such as the exclusion of all mail-in ballots from the 2020 election count or the disqualification of Michigan's electoral college votes from the final tally.
In August 2021, U.S. District Judge Linda Parker imposed a $175,000 penalty on Ms. Powell and the other lawyers in a 110-page ruling, denouncing their Michigan election challenge as “frivolous” and a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
Powell has defended her actions in court filings, asserting that her conduct was reasonable and that she thoroughly vetted her election fraud claims before initiating the lawsuit.
Read the Supreme Court case docket entry here.
