SCOTUS Tells Sidney Powell To Pound Sand

by Jon King, Michigan Advance
February 20, 2024

Sanctions levied against Sidney Powell and six other attorneys for spreading false claims while litigating the results of Michigan’s 2020 general election will stand.

That’s after the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, without comment, rejected appeals by the group, all of whom represented former President Donald Trump’s unsuccessful attempts to overturn President Joe Biden’s more than 154,000 vote margin of victory in Michigan in 2020.

The attorneys argued the sanctions would “chill legitimate election challenges,” while also claiming Democrats were trying to “marginalize political opponents and destroy their counsel.”

The sanctions were ordered in August 2021 by U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Judge Linda Parker. In her 110-page opinion granting the sanctions, Parker wrote that the lawsuit “represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process” and “should never have been filed.”

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