By Andrew Oxford | Arizona Republic
A complaint filed last week named 21 attorneys, including a high-profile lawyer for Trump, Sidney Powell, who represented several would-be presidential electors supporting Trump in alleging “massive election fraud” involving voting machines, foreign interference and illegal votes.
Several local lawyers have sent complaints to the State Bar of Arizona accusing attorneys representing President Donald Trump and some of his supporters of violating ethics rules by repeatedly filing what they contend are frivolous election-related lawsuits.
The lawyers named in the complaints were part of the flurry of litigation Trump and Republicans launched after his defeat in the general election, claiming in various lawsuits that Arizona’s election was beset by fraud, irregularities and other problems.
Courts have dismissed these claims, and the complaints allege that the lawsuits were plainly meritless. The complaints charge that the lawyers treated the cases “as a platform for broadcasting ‘gossip and innuendo,’ utterly devoid of factual proof, as a political stunt.”
“Clearly the suits were filed in bad faith, to spread disinformation about election results and add to the false claim that the election was ‘rigged,'” wrote one of the signers of the complaints, Robert McWhirter, who ran in the Democratic Party primary for county attorney and is currently a member of the State Bar of Arizona Board of Governors.
