Michigan Officials Seek Disbarment Of Election Fraud Attorneys

LANSING, MI — Three of Michigan's top elected officials are seeking the disbarment of four attorneys they said pushed a false narrative of election fraud in Michigan before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed motions for federal court sanctions against Michigan attorneys Greg Rohl, Scott Hagerstrom and Stefanie Junttila, along with Texas attorney Sidney Powell, asking that the attorneys be disbarred.

The three filed complaints with the Attorney Grievance Commission of the State of Michigan and the State Bar of Texas, asking that the attorneys be disbarred and lose their ability to practice law in those states.

“These attorneys filed a complaint based on falsehoods, used their law license in an attempt to disenfranchise Michigan voters and undermine the faith of the public in the legitimacy of the recent presidential election, and lent credence to untruths that led to violence and unrest,” Nessel said in a statement. “In doing so, they violated their oath and the ethical rules to which they are bound, abused the court system, and compromised the administration of justice — an important foundation of our civil society and the very bulwark of our democratic institutions. Anything short of disbarment would be an injustice to the American people.”

Court filings in King v. Whitmer, which sought to overturn President Joe Biden’s electoral victory in Michigan, were legally frivolous and supported by false evidence, the three state officials said, and were quickly denied.

Similar lawsuits were filed in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona, and all failed. Attorneys Powell and Junttila went so far as to brazenly misrepresent facts in a filing to the U.S. Supreme Court, claiming that the Michigan Legislature had endorsed competing slates of Republican and Democratic electors when in reality, the Legislature’s leaders stood by the slate of electors chosen by Michigan’s voters, officials said.

“The 2020 general election was the most secure in our nation’s history, and these lawyers abused their authority by filing meritless, frivolous lawsuits for the sole purpose of undermining public faith in the election,” Benson said. “They must be held accountable for this unprecedented attack on our democracy and prevented from replicating such harm in the future.”