The Supreme Court this week again refused to consider pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell’s request to review sanctions issued against her and other lawyers who contested the 2020 election results in Michigan.
She had petitioned the high court last month to reconsider its previous denial of her case in February, arguing due process and the interest of justice suggest the justices should review the sanctions.
But without comment on Monday, the justices again declined to get involved.
Ms. Powell, who challenged the election results in several swing states in 2020, was one of half a dozen lawyers who had asked the high court to review a lower court’s decision to uphold sanctions and bar complaints against them over their election challenge.
Other lawyers were also sanctioned, but they had their sanctions overturned on appeal or filed separately with the justices to contest the punishment.
Ms. Powell had argued that the sanctions chill First Amendment rights.
In October, she pleaded guilty to several misdemeanors in Georgia’s election interference case and agreed to serve six years probation and pay thousands of dollars in fines.
• Alex Swoyer can be reached at aswoyer@washingtontimes.com.
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