60+ lawsuits to overturn the election, and they lost damn nearly all of them, because they had not one shred of credible evidence for their alleged fraud.
On the contrary, their legendary “kraken” lawyers got sanctioned for their frivolous lawsuits.
From the ruling:
“This lawsuit represents a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.
It is one thing to take on the charge of vindicating rights associated with an
allegedly fraudulent election. It is another to take on the charge of deceiving a
federal court and the American people into believing that rights were infringed,
without regard to whether any laws or rights were in fact violated. This is what
happened here.
Individuals may have a right (within certain bounds) to disseminate
allegations of fraud unsupported by law or fact in the public sphere. But attorneys
cannot exploit their privilege and access to the judicial process to do the same.
And when an attorney has done so, sanctions are in order.
Here’s why. America’s civil litigation system affords individuals the
privilege to file a lawsuit to allege a violation of law. Individuals, however, must
litigate within the established parameters for filing a claim. Such parameters are
set forth in statutes, rules of civil procedure, local court rules, and professional
rules of responsibility and ethics. Every attorney who files a claim on behalf of a
client is charged with the obligation to know these statutes and rules, as well as the
law allegedly violated.
Specifically, attorneys have an obligation to the judiciary, their profession,
and the public (i) to conduct some degree of due diligence before presenting
allegations as truth; (ii) to advance only tenable claims; and (iii) to proceed with a
lawsuit in good faith and based on a proper purpose. Attorneys also have an
obligation to dismiss a lawsuit when it becomes clear that the requested relief is
unavailable.
This matter comes before the Court upon allegations that Plaintiffs’ counsel
did none of these things. To be clear, for the purpose of the pending sanctions
motions, the Court is neither being asked to decide nor has it decided whether there
was fraud in the 2020 presidential election in the State of Michigan.1 Rather, the
question before the Court is whether Plaintiffs’ attorneys engaged in litigation
practices that are abusive and, in turn, sanctionable. The short answer is yes.
The attorneys who filed the instant lawsuit abused the well-established rules
applicable to the litigation process by proffering claims not backed by law;
proffering claims not backed by evidence (but instead, speculation, conjecture, and
unwarranted suspicion); proffering factual allegations and claims without engaging
in the required prefiling inquiry; and dragging out these proceedings even after
they acknowledged that it was too late to attain the relief sought.
And this case was never about fraud—it was about undermining the
People’s faith in our democracy and debasing the judicial process to do so.
While there are many arenas—including print, television, and social
media—where protestations, conjecture, and speculation may be advanced, such
expressions are neither permitted nor welcomed in a court of law. And while we
as a country pride ourselves on the freedoms embodied within the First
Amendment, it is well-established that an attorney’s freedom of speech is
circumscribed upon “entering” the courtroom.2
Indeed, attorneys take an oath to uphold and honor our legal system. The
sanctity of both the courtroom and the litigation process are preserved only when
attorneys adhere to this oath and follow the rules, and only when courts impose
sanctions when attorneys do not. And despite the haze of confusion, commotion,
and chaos counsel intentionally attempted to create by filing this lawsuit, one thing
is perfectly clear: Plaintiffs’ attorneys have scorned their oath, flouted the rules,
and attempted to undermine the integrity of the judiciary along the way.3
As such
the Court is duty-bound to grant the motions for sanctions filed by Defendants and
Intervenor-Defendants and is imposing sanctions pursuant to Rule 11 of the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C. § 1927, and its own inherent authority.”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.350905/gov.uscourts.mied.350905.172.0_3.pdf