Former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis censured in Colorado for false election claims

[angka]

Source: Colorado Newsline

Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who was former President Donald Trump’s senior legal advisor as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, has been censured by a Colorado judge for misconduct.

The public censure order was signed Wednesday by Presiding Disciplinary Judge Bryon M. Large, who oversees lawyer discipline cases in Colorado.

As part of an agreement in the case, Ellis admits that multiple statements she made in late 2020 about the presidential election being stolen were “misrepresentations.”

...In an opinion accepting a censure agreement between Yates and Ellis, Large noted that Ellis has agreed that her statements about the election being stolen were misrepresentations, which he said were made “with at least a reckless state of mind.” Ellis also agreed that she, “though her conduct, undermined the American public’s confidence in the presidential election, violating her duty of candor to the public,” Large wrote, adding that “a selfish motive” and “a pattern of misconduct” were aggravating factors in the case.

Read more: https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/former-trump-lawyer-jenna-ellis-censured-in-colorado-for-false-election-claims/

[hlthe2b]

1. Not even a suspension of license. Still, at least Colorado did what Texas refuses to do with

Sidney Powell.

[Hortensis]

2. Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel is not currently pursuing any other charges.

If she shot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue, would that at least endanger her license to practice law?

Appalling.

[Ocelot II]

5. Not sure what the state's ethics rules provide, but the result might have something to do

with the fact that her false statements were not made in pleadings or during court proceedings, but on TV. I don't agree with the result but maybe that explains it.

[Hortensis]

7. Thanks. I'm hoping some agency has a standard to apply.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. "misrepresentations" jeezuz I can't fkg stand this bullsht

[hibbing]

9. They must can't bring themselves to use the L word. n/t

[Atticus]

4. So?

Unless I missed it, there is no mention of a revocation or even a temporary suspension of her right to practice law.

This was not a case of negligence; she intentionally lied for the political benefit of a monster.

And, she obviously lacks the "shame gene" so, big whoop,---she was "censured"!

[BumRushDaShow]

6. This seemed to address her "public" (TV) statements mostly and she admitted it was a lie

The question will be what she said during grand jury testimony - in particular - Fani Willis' investigation where she was forced to testify. It might become a quandary in that if she insisted on the narrative, this might mean perjury but if she admitted to the bullshit "Big Lie®", it might put others in the line of a perjury fire.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. If Ellis had contested this proceeding, she would have been disbarred

Now Ellis can go back to working on traffic court issues

[BootinUp]

10. Owie. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. Ellis acknowledges she made, & lists the details of, 10 misrepresentations

Link to tweet

[Bengus81]

12. More of the same for Trump THUGS--little to NO punishment

What a fucking shock................NOT

[RussBLib]

13. A whopping monetary fine.....

...of $224. What a joke!

Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election were false and is censured by judge

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/jenna-ellis-former-trump-attorney/index.html