The Supreme Court was never going to save Trump’s lawyers from sanctions

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Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, is the host of the 'Passing Judgment' podcast. She is also the director of the Public Service Institute at Loyola Law School, director of Loyola's Journalist Law School and former president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission.

This week, the Supreme Court declined to hear appeals from seven attorneys allied with former President Donald Trump. The lawyers, including L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, face sanctions for filing groundless lawsuits claiming massive fraud in the 2020 election. The decision might come as a surprise to some, given the court’s conservative majority and the fact that Trump appointed three of its nine members.

We cannot, to take a wild hypothetical, lie in a court of law and file a lawsuit without any factual basis, and expect to escape professional sanctions. This is because attorneys hold a position of trust in our society. We make plenty of consequential decisions for and with our clients, and sometimes even have control over money that belongs to them. Part of the purpose of the sanctions at issue here is to punish attorneys like Wood and Powell.

 

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