Supreme Court won’t hear Sidney Powell’s challenge to sanctions over Michigan election case

The Supreme Court announced Tuesday it won’t review sanctions against attorneys who contested the 2020 election results in Michigan.

Sidney Powell, a pro-Trump attorney who challenged the election results in several swing states in 2020, was one of half a dozen lawyers who 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 either had their sanctions overturned on appeal or were filing separately with the justices to contest the punishment.

“These sanctions chill and burden the First Amendment right to petition in unpopular cases,” Ms. Powell and her colleagues argued in their brief to the justices last year.

But on Tuesday, the high court refused to hear their challenge without comment.

It would have taken four justices to vote in favor of hearing the dispute, Powell v. Whitmer.