https://youtu.be/CWXcGBOJemU
[Background here from Law.com, also check out live analysis from Akiva Cohen. Sidney Powell and Lin Wood are present, so this ought to be good.]

The federal judge hearing the arguments in a motion seeking sanctions against lawyers Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and Howard Kleinhendler–the attorneys in the failed “Kraken” election fraud cases–said the trio failed to undertake “minimal due diligence” before submitting information to the court, Law.com reports.

Lawyers for the City of Detroit and the State of Michigan have filed a complaint with the court to sanction Wood, Powell and Kleinhendler, whom the city and state say filed the lawsuits strictly to undermine the public confidence in the November 2020 election.

“There is a responsibility, there is a duty that counsel has to ensure that when you’re submitting a sworn statement in support of your case, actually presenting it as evidentiary support for your claims, that you have reviewed it, that you have done some minimal due diligence,” U.S. District Judge Linda Parker of the Eastern District of Michigan said.

David Fink, a lawyer for the city of Detroit, noted for the court that there were clear inconsistencies, misstatements and fraudulent claims in the scores of affidavits filed by the three attorneys trying to overturn the election.  Fink stated that a cursory review of those affidavits would have identified those issues, and the lawyers should not have filed them with the court.

In response to questioning by Parker, lawyers like Kleinhendler and Julia Haller would cite the affiants’ qualifications but did not give many details about how they independently verified the claims beyond reviewing the reports and filings themselves.

Detroit and Michigan are seeking severe sanctions on the lawyers involved in the Kraken cases, up to and including disbarment.  42