Sidney Powell's legal defense: 'Reasonable people' wouldn't believe her election fraud claims. Lawyers for the Trump ally claim she was just sharing an opinion when she said the election was stolen using machines built to rig races for Hugo Chavez. Sidney Powell at a news conference in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020.
The filing requests that the lawsuit against Powell be dismissed or moved to Texas federal court. It is signed by a several attorneys, including Jesse Binnall, a Virginia-based attorney who is defending Trump in a civil suit about the Jan. 6 riot. The former president has continued to advance false claims about the 2020 election;
Ex-Trump attorney Sidney Powell's weeks long campaign to invalidate the results of the 2020 election was not based in fact, her lawyers said Monday.
She has been lead counsel in more than 500 federal appeals—350 of them as an Assistant United States Attorney and Appellate Section Chief in the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. She is a past president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and the Bar Association of the Fift h Federal Circuit, and a member of the American Law Institute. It was from her experience in several of her cases that she felt compelled to become:
Sidney the Media Figure is highly sought to comment on current legal issues and government investigations— especially the special investigation lead by Robert Mueller and his chief lieutenant Andrew Weissmann, who is a true villain in LICENSED TO LIE .
Sidney the Speaker can be seen on BookTV from her appearance at the CATO Institute with Judge Alex Kozinski. She speaks often at local and national events, for non-profits and business associations, at CPAC, TPUSA, and other political symposiums, and at colleges and universities.
General Michael Flynn, the 33 year war hero who has served with distinction, has not ret ained a good lawyer, he has retained a GREAT LAWYER, Sidney Powell. Best Wishes and Good Luck to them both! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2019. Presidential Harassment! pic.twitter.com/2Cz5ckERcs.
From 1978 through 1988, Powell was an assistant United States attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, where she handled civil and criminal trial work. She was appointed Appellate Section Chief for the Western District of Texas and then the Northern District of Texas.
Powell established her own law firm in 1993 in Dallas, Texas. Around 2002 , she began to practic…
Sidney Katherine Powell was born in Durham, North Carolina, grew up in the city of Raleigh, and knew from an early age that she wanted to be a lawyer.
She graduated from Needham Broughton High School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts. At the age of 19, she was accepted into the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she graduated in 1978 with a Juris Doctor degr…
In November 2020, Powell established Legal Defense Fund for the American Republic, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization with stated purpose to collect funds to help prosecute fraud in U.S. elections. Powell launched Restore the Republic, a super PAC, in January 2021.
The Washington Post reported in November 2021 that the preceding September federal prosecutors had issued a subpoena for the financial records of groups Powell had formed, inclu…
Powell has written opinion pieces for The New York Observer, The Daily Caller, The Hill, National Review, Fox News, and media organizations and conservative content producers. She has published two books:
• Powell, Sidney K. (May 1, 2014). Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. Brown Books. ISBN 978-1-61254-149-5. OCLC 870288205.
Powell has a son from a marriage that ended in divorce "decades ago". In 2004, she founded a non-profit for victims of domestic violence. She has participated in volunteer work for women's shelters and other charities. Powell was not recalled as "being a staunch conservative or even very political" by people who interacted with her in those organizations. Powell served as executive producer on the 2013 drama Decoding Annie Parker, providing guidance to help bring the film to …
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