One year and one day after @The65Project filed the first public complaint against @jennaellisesq the Colorado Supreme Court announced it was disciplining Ellis based on our complaint. /1
Or as the original headline said: "The Group Tormenting Trump's 2020 Lawyers Is Not Done Yet."
The 65 Project continues our work protecting democracy and holding lawyers accountable who seek to overturn our fair and free elections.
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“Ellis admitted in state disciplinary proceedings that while serving as counsel to then-President Trump and his campaign, she made at least 10 public misrepresentations about the 2020 presidential election, including falsely stating the election was ‘stolen.’”
"Jenna Ellis, an attorney who once described herself as part of an elite strike force representing former President Donald Trump, was formally disciplined by a judge after admitting to falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump."
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"Jenna Ellis acknowledged that she knowingly misrepresented the facts about election fraud in a disciplinary procedure by Colorado state bar officials."
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Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis admits 10 of her stolen-election claims were "misrepresentations."
I dug through them. They include expansive claims to having actual proof Trump won. She drafted a plan for Jan. 6.
Remarkable things for an attorney to flub.
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Ellis signed a legal acknowledgment that “she made a number of public statements about the November 2020 presidential election that were false” and did so with a “reckless state of mind” and with “a selfish motive”.
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Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who represented President Trump after his loss in the 2020 election, admitted in a sworn statement that she had knowingly misrepresented the facts in several of her public claims that widespread voting fraud led to Trump’s defeat.
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"Jenna Ellis who helped drive [Trump's] false claims about the 2020 election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence at least 10 times during Trump’s frantic bid to subvert his defeat."
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@JennaEllisEsq Looks like you are lying again.
This is from the order disciplining you. You stipulated to this and agreed you had "a selfish motive and she engaged in a pattern of misconduct".
@JennaEllisEsq Looks like you are lying again.
This is from the order disciplining you. You stipulated to this and agreed you had "a selfish motive and she engaged in a pattern of misconduct".
“Ellis signed a stipulation stating that several comments she made about the 2020 election violated professional ethics rules barring reckless, knowing or intentional misrepresentations by attorneys.”
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One year and one day after @The65Project filed the first public complaint against @jennaellisesq the Colorado Supreme Court announced it was disciplining Ellis based on our complaint. /1
And we must ensure that any finding of such conduct will result in a minimum level of discipline that includes a suspension from practicing law. The rules must act as a deterrent to future abuse. /9