Sanctioning lawyers who are fighting to uphold the country’s election process is a great way to scare away competent, qualified, and strong ones from taking charged cases.
Very well said, Deion! There's good news, though: mounting legal challenges to an election will become about a million percent more legitimate on the morning of Wednesday, November 9th, 2022. Count on it. The wheel will have turned...
“The American legal system is adversarial; therefore, a case’s legal soundness is only as good as the competition between the lawyers who appear before the court.”
Only? Have you read the pleadings in any of these cases?
Did you watch the 6-hour sanction hearing with Judge Parker (when plaintiffs’ counsels pointed fingers at each other)?
Sanctions are reserved for extreme cases of misconduct. Far from having a chilling effect, hopefully the rebuke from the courts inspires attorneys to bring claims with *at least some* merit so the adversarial system can actually work.
Very well said, Deion! There's good news, though: mounting legal challenges to an election will become about a million percent more legitimate on the morning of Wednesday, November 9th, 2022. Count on it. The wheel will have turned...
“The American legal system is adversarial; therefore, a case’s legal soundness is only as good as the competition between the lawyers who appear before the court.”
Only? Have you read the pleadings in any of these cases?
Did you watch the 6-hour sanction hearing with Judge Parker (when plaintiffs’ counsels pointed fingers at each other)?
Sanctions are reserved for extreme cases of misconduct. Far from having a chilling effect, hopefully the rebuke from the courts inspires attorneys to bring claims with *at least some* merit so the adversarial system can actually work.