One of Donald Trump's former lawyers, Jenna Ellis, admitted to misrepresenting evidence 10 times while trying to overturn the 2020 election — but she'll still be able to practice law.
Ellis admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding to getting the facts wrong about the results of the 2020 election.
The disciplinary judge, Bryon Large, wrote in his six-page order that Ellis made "these misrepresentations on Twitter and on various television programs, including Fox Business, MSNBC, Fox News, and Newsmax."
These were the claims Ellis admitted to misrepresenting:
- That former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton "has not conceded the 2016 election."
- That Trump's legal team had witness affidavits, fraudulent ballots, and "al kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret..."
- That "the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that."
- Trump's legal team "will present testimonial and other evidence IN COURT to show how this election was STOLEN!"
- "The election was stolen and Trump won by a landslide."
- That there was "widespread fraud" in the 2020 election and at least six battleground states "were corrupted, if not more through their voting systems."
- That there were more than 500,000 illegal votes cast in Arizona.
Large wrote that while Ellis showed a "pattern of misconduct" and a "selfish motive" when spreading the misinformation, she had no prior record of discipline for bad behavior, reducing her punishment.
Ellis was publicly censured, but the action will not have any effect on her ability to practice law.
She also agreed to pay $224 in fees related to the disciplinary action.
In a statement after the judge's opinion, Colorado's Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel said it wasn't pursuing any other charges against Ellis.
"The public censure in this matter reinforces that even if engaged in political speech, there is a line attorneys cannot cross, particularly when they are speaking in a representative capacity," the office wrote.
