(thread) NEW: Two former presidents of the Arizona State Bar and five other attorneys have jointly filed a rare ethics complaint to the State Bar against 21 attorneys who participated in Trump campaign legal filings (including 11 AZ attorneys). #12News 
The 8-page complaint seeks an official investigation which could possibly lead to reprimand, suspension, investigation fees or disbarment. According to the letter, "Confidence in the legal system is seriously eroded when attorneys treat lawsuits as a platform for broadcasting
gossip and innuendo utterly devoid of factual proof, as a political stunt. That is what has happened repeatedly in Arizona and is the basis for thisreport of ethical violations by said attorneys under the Rules of Professional Conduct."
The complaint also states, "For politicians to
spout that nonsense in a press conference is one thing, but for attorneys to try to use the courts solely for political disruption is not allowed... To be an attorney is a privilege, not a right. To retain the privilege,
spout that nonsense in a press conference is one thing, but for attorneys to try to use the courts solely for political disruption is not allowed... To be an attorney is a privilege, not a right. To retain the privilege,
we must abide by a code of ethics. These twenty-one attorneys did not do so." According to one of the complaint's authors, AZ attorney Dianne Post, such an ethics complaint is rare and not taken lightly. The complaint & investigation could also result in no action whatsoever.
The 11 AZ attorneys named are Dennis Wilenchick, Jack Wilenchick, Lee Miller, Alexander Kolodin, Christopher Viskovic, Chris Ford, Brett Johnson, Eric Spender, Kory Langhofer, Thomas Basile and Davis Spilsbury. It also includes 3 attorneys with Sidney Powell's firm.
Full Story and embedded complaint:
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