Thousands of Lawyers, Law Students Push to Disbar Cruz, Hawley

A push by more than 7,000 lawyers and law students to have Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) disbarred likely won’t succeed, say legal ethics experts.

“It is unlikely that a petition will influence the bars to take action that they don’t have to take, particularly a petition started and signed by a number of individuals who are neither members of the particular bars nor have had any personal contact (either as attorneys or clients) with the subjects of the petition,” said Mason Ernest Lowe, who teaches the practice of law at William & Mary Law School. ...