Judge Blasts ‘Fantastical’ Voter-Fraud Claims, Fact Checking (1)

A federal judge in Michigan grilled former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and other Republican Party lawyers over whether they should be sanctioned for filing a lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election result using false claims about voter fraud in the swing state.

U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker in Detroit on Monday dissected dozens of affidavits the lawyers had submitted as evidence of a vast conspiracy to steal the election from former President Donald Trump. Parker called some of the claims “fantastical” and repeatedly expressed surprise at the apparent lack of fact-checking carried out by the lawyers before ...