The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by two lawyers contesting a $187,000 financial sanction imposed on them by a judge who found they made recklessness and frivolous claims in litigation they brought seeking to overturn former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss as fraudulent.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage during the first rally for his re-election campaign at Waco Regional Airport in Waco, Texas, U.S., March 25, 2023. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File PhotoWASHINGTON, Oct 2 - The U.S.
U.S. Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neureiter in August 2021 imposed the sanctions on Walker and Fielder over the suit that was filed in federal court in December 2020, the month after the election. The lawsuit, the judge concluded, was "one enormous conspiracy theory" and arguments made by the lawyers "crossed the border into the frivolous."the sanction based on the "inherent power" of judges and also a federal law that states that a lawyer can be held liable for costs for "unreasonably and vexatiously" extending a court case.
Trump's allies made false claims that Denver-based Dominion's ballot-counting machines were used to manipulate the election in favor of Biden. Fox CorpFielder and Walker, in asking the Supreme Court to hear their case, said in a legal filing that they "behaved with decorum and timeliness. Every pleading was filed within the rules of professional conduct."
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