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[tallguy]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump's false claims that he defeated Joe Biden.



On Tuesday, Wood asked officials in his home state of Georgia to “retire” his law license in light of “disciplinary proceedings pending against me.” In the request, made in a letter and posted on his Telegram account, Wood acknowledges that he is “prohibited from practicing law in this State and in any other state or jurisdiction and that I may not reapply for admission.”

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Can we hope that EVERY SINGLE attorney who ever worked with or for Trump follows soon behind?   

[pulmonarymd]

They won't. They clearly are incapable of shame or embarassment

[tallguy]

Jul 5, 2023 12:05:26 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

They won't. They clearly are incapable of shame or embarassment

So is Wood, but facing disbarment can be a pretty good motivator.

[pulmonarymd]

Jul 5, 2023 12:45:01 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Jul 5, 2023 12:05:26 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

They won't. They clearly are incapable of shame or embarassment

So is Wood, but facing disbarment can be a pretty good motivator.

He is old and at the end of his career. Fighting it probably doesn't make much sense. For the others, relinquishing their license can be a big deal.

[billisonboard]

Sydney Powell is 68.
Rudy Giuliani is 79.

[tallguy]

Jul 5, 2023 12:55:38 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Jul 5, 2023 12:45:01 GMT -5 tallguy said:

So is Wood, but facing disbarment can be a pretty good motivator.

He is old and at the end of his career. Fighting it probably doesn't make much sense. For the others, relinquishing their license can be a big deal.

I'm fine with them fighting it, losing, and being disbarred.  No problem with that at all.

[pulmonarymd]

Jul 5, 2023 13:03:52 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Sydney Powell is 68.
Rudy Giuliani is 79.

Rudy is talking, so who knows. Powell isn't truly "old". Wouldn't consider 68 old for an attorney. many practice into their 70s. Rudy and Powell may need to work given all the suits and criminal charges they may be party to. 

[laterbloomer]

Don't bite my head off, but why would he be disciplned for filing legal challenges? Lots of losing challenges get filed. Please tell me there is much more to it legally than that.

[billisonboard]

Jul 5, 2023 13:21:40 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Jul 5, 2023 13:03:52 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Sydney Powell is 68.
Rudy Giuliani is 79.

Rudy is talking, so who knows. Powell isn't truly "old". Wouldn't consider 68 old for an attorney. many practice into their 70s. Rudy and Powell may need to work given all the suits and criminal charges they may be party to. 

FWIW, Wood is 70.

[billisonboard]

Jul 5, 2023 13:41:16 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Don't bite my head off, but why would he be disciplned for filing legal challenges? Lots of losing challenges get filed. Please tell me there is much more to it legally than that.

The bar asked Wood to undergo a mental health assessment as part of a probe opened in 2021. Former colleagues said Wood displayed “erratic, abusive, and unprofessional behavior,” according to the bar. link

[laterbloomer]

Jul 5, 2023 13:45:32 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jul 5, 2023 13:41:16 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Don't bite my head off, but why would he be disciplned for filing legal challenges? Lots of losing challenges get filed. Please tell me there is much more to it legally than that.

The bar asked Wood to undergo a mental health assessment as part of a probe opened in 2021. Former colleagues said Wood displayed “erratic, abusive, and unprofessional behavior,” according to the bar. link

Thanks. I would be more comfortable with an explanation of what abusing the legal system means. Whenever we are talking about these things I always think of it by flipping who's on which side. If this was a Democratic lawyer being sanctioned for filing suit against Trump I would call it an abuse of power. Please convince me this isn't that.

[billisonboard]

Jul 5, 2023 13:53:47 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Jul 5, 2023 13:45:32 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

The bar asked Wood to undergo a mental health assessment as part of a probe opened in 2021. Former colleagues said Wood displayed “erratic, abusive, and unprofessional behavior,” according to the bar. link

Thanks. I would be more comfortable with an explanation of what abusing the legal system means. Whenever we are talking about these things I always think of it by flipping who's on which side. If this was a Democratic lawyer being sanctioned for filing suit against Trump I would call it an abuse of power. Please convince me this isn't that.

Don't know what will convince you but from the link in the OP:

Wood sued the state bar in 2022, claiming the bar's request that he undergo a mental health evaluation as part of its probe violated his constitutional rights, but a federal appeals court tossed that ruling, saying Wood failed to show there was “bad faith” behind the request.

[tallguy]

Wood was already one of several Trump attorneys who have been sanctioned for abuse of the legal system in his service to Trump.  There is almost certainly additional evidence that he violated the Canon of Professional Ethics along with that, if that was not already included in his other charges.

[pulmonarymd]

Jul 5, 2023 13:41:16 GMT -5 laterbloomer said:

Don't bite my head off, but why would he be disciplned for filing legal challenges? Lots of losing challenges get filed. Please tell me there is much more to it legally than that.

Lawyers are not supposed to file suits for issues they now to be untrue. Such as claiming that the election results were wrong, even after multiple suits were filed

[pulmonarymd]

Jul 5, 2023 13:41:35 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

Jul 5, 2023 13:21:40 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Rudy is talking, so who knows. Powell isn't truly "old". Wouldn't consider 68 old for an attorney. many practice into their 70s. Rudy and Powell may need to work given all the suits and criminal charges they may be party to. 

FWIW, Wood is 70.

Thought he was older. Shows you how much I knew. Sure seemed older when I saw him interviewed

[djAdvocate]

Jul 5, 2023 12:05:26 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

They won't. They clearly are incapable of shame or embarassment

the judicial system will rectify that "personal issue".

[djAdvocate]

so far, the judicial system has proved surprisingly robust.

if we can keep Democrats appointing mainstream liberal candidates, it might well save the Republic.  

[Tennesseer]

It gets better.

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood blames satanists in the Georgia Bar for him giving up law license

An attorney who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump said satanic symbols prompted him to give up

In a letter this week, Lin Wood revealed that the State Bar of Georgia had agreed to drop the disciplinary hearing if he retired as a lawyer. Wood had faced discipline connected to his efforts to overturn the election.

Wood later insisted on Telegram that he had not retired to end the disciplinary proceedings.

Instead, he said he blamed his retirement on satanic symbols.

"Anyone who suggests that my voluntary retirement from the GA B.A.R. was out of fear of disbarment, does not know me or has not followed me very long on Telegram," he wrote. "My retirement request to the GA B.A.R. was planned and timed in the manner and timing of my choice after much prayer and time spent reading the Holy Bible.

"Through the litigation process, I concluded that the GA B.A.R. was heavily infiltrated and led by Freemasons and other secret society members and its symbols were satanic," Wood added. "I wanted out!!! Light cannot yoke with darkness. So I got out. On terms totally acceptable to me."

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood blames satanists in the Georgia Bar for him giving up law license

[pulmonarymd]

Watching someone supposedly educated lose their mind is an interesting process

[djAdvocate]

Jul 6, 2023 17:36:29 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

It gets better.

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood blames satanists in the Georgia Bar for him giving up law license

An attorney who worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump said satanic symbols prompted him to give up

In a letter this week, Lin Wood revealed that the State Bar of Georgia had agreed to drop the disciplinary hearing if he retired as a lawyer. Wood had faced discipline connected to his efforts to overturn the election.

Wood later insisted on Telegram that he had not retired to end the disciplinary proceedings.

Instead, he said he blamed his retirement on satanic symbols.

"Anyone who suggests that my voluntary retirement from the GA B.A.R. was out of fear of disbarment, does not know me or has not followed me very long on Telegram," he wrote. "My retirement request to the GA B.A.R. was planned and timed in the manner and timing of my choice after much prayer and time spent reading the Holy Bible.

"Through the litigation process, I concluded that the GA B.A.R. was heavily infiltrated and led by Freemasons and other secret society members and its symbols were satanic," Wood added. "I wanted out!!! Light cannot yoke with darkness. So I got out. On terms totally acceptable to me."

Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood blames satanists in the Georgia Bar for him giving up law license

after much prayer and time spent reading the Holy Bible.

not sure how reading the Bible helped him with this decision.
tell me more.  

[billisonboard]

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