Formal Complaint Filed Against Jenna Ellis For Disbarment
Watchdog groups have filed complaints against former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, calling for her disbarment over her illegal efforts to overthrow the presidential election after Trump lost in 2020. In case you're confused as to who Ellis is, Rudy Giuliani gave her Covid (allegedly!) by farting on her in court.
The Messenger reports:
The States United Democracy Center and Lawyers Defending American Democracy sent the 134-page detailed complaint Friday to the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, a group within the Colorado Supreme Court that overseas the practice of law in the state, the Denver Post was the first to report.
A tearful Ellis pleaded guilty in October in Georgia to a single felony of aiding and abetting false statements and writing concerning the election in the state. The plea was part of a deal with Georgia prosecutors in their sweeping election racketeering case against Trump and 17 other co-defendants.
"If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges," Ellis said in court. "I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse for those failures of mine."
She was sentenced to five years probation and fined $5,000.
The watchdog groups argued that Ellis should lose her law license because she broke her pledge as an attorney to uphold the law.