Rachel Alexander: ‘The settlement serves her interests but not those of MAGA’
The left is upping the lawfare against conservatives, even attempting to prosecute them, as they proceed to indict former President Donald Trump.
The 65 Project was specifically created to disbar conservative election attorneys. Any election attorney who dares to get involved in litigation regarding the botched 2020 presidential election, or other elections like Arizona’s 2022 midterm where Republican voters were disenfranchised, risks losing their license to practice law due to left-wing dominated state bars.
A year ago, the 65 Project filed a legal ethics complaint against Trump’s former attorney Jenna Ellis in her home state of Colorado, demanding discipline – including possible disbarment – for public statements she made defending Trump and his efforts to combat election fraud.
Earlier this month, Ellis quietly settled the case. She admitted to spreading “misrepresentations” “with at least a reckless state of mind.” For these concessions, which are very damaging to Trump and his cause, Ellis escaped with a censure for professional misconduct from the Colorado courts. Based on her tweets, Ellis appears now to be leaning toward Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Trump for president in 2024, although a year ago she offered to represent Disney against DeSantis.
Ellis’ censure deal required her to say she had misled Americans with statements such as, “The election was stolen and Trump won by a landslide.” And, “The proper and true victor … is Donald Trump.” These are statements most Republican voters believe are true, according to polls. A Quinnipiac poll found that 76% of Republicans believe there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Immediately before the censure was announced, Ellis tweeted that Kari Lake was a “grifter” for appealing her alleged gubernatorial loss in Arizona. While there’s only a slim chance any judges will dare rule that there was voter suppression since it affected Republicans, Lake’s supporters would be devastated if she dropped the battle to expose corruption, especially since more information continues to come out, including an exit poll finding that an astounding 8% more voters chose her over Katie Hobbs.
Ellis’ settlement would have been quietly swept under the rug but…