Lawyers Who Helped With Trump’s 2020 Election Fraud Claims Hit With Disciplinary Charges

Published on January 20, 2024

Three lawyers who helped litigate former President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election have been hit with disciplinary charges by the bar association in Washington. Court filings released on Jan. 19 (found here and here) show that attorneys Juli Haller, Lawrence Joseph, and Brandon Johnson have been accused of knowingly making false statements to courts in the context of various lawsuits they filed in support of President Trump’s challenge to the election, which to this day he maintains was “rigged.” Ms. Haller was involved in attorney Sidney Powell’s “Kraken” lawsuits and later represented a handful of Jan. 6 defendants....