Sidney Powell Avoids Texas Sanctions in 2020 Election Challenge (1)

Lawyer Sidney Powell can’t be disciplined by the State Bar of Texas for advancing false claims that Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election, a state appeals court said, affirming a trial court.

Three Democratic justices on the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas said the Bar’s ethics arm provided no evidence that Powell, a Trump ally licensed to practice law in Texas, knowingly asserted incorrect facts to prevent the certification of election results in battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

“The absence of evidence demonstrating that Powell knowingly made a false ...