During court proceedings, Trump lawyers got so angry that the judge called time-outs, the NYT reported. James is investigating whether the Trump Org. broke state laws in its business dealings.
Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump in his battle with the New York attorney general's office got so tense in court proceedings on Thursday that the judge had to call several time-outs, The New York Times reported.
Sidney Powell, then an attorney for President Donald Trump, at a news conference Nov. 19 at the Republican National Committee about lawsuits over the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images file
“You can’t go to court just because you don’t like the vote totals,” Ned Foley, an election law expert at Ohio State, told MSNBC over the weekend, according to this NPR article that sums up Trump’s various lawsuits over the election. “You have to have a legal claim, and you have to have evidence to back it up.
Such an outcome was far from certain last year, when Trump nominated Barrett to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Around the same time, he said repeatedly that the court should overturn Obamacare.
In the end, Trump was wrong about the law, the politics of trying to kill the Affordable Care Act — and the assumption that he could control the votes of his Supreme Court picks.
Further, Democratic New York state lawmaker Brad Hoylman has filed a complaint with a state appellate court seeking Giuliani’s disbarment over his “complicity” in the Capitol riot and “flagrant” violations of ethical standards of conduct.
Two House Democrats wrote last week to the New York State Bar Association requesting an investigation of Giuliani citing his call for “trial by combat”. Noting Giuliani’s role in the “violent uprising”, the bar group has begun an inquiry that could lead to his ouster.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, could be included in a federal investigation and is facing a disbarment complaint. Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to Donald Trump, speaks at a rally on 6 January before the march on the Capitol.