The group who successfully got Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani disbarred for spreading disinformation is now targeting Senator Ted Cruz (R-Quintana Roo) for his effort to undermine the results of the 2020 election, the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Cruz played a leading role in the effort to overturn the 2020 elections. And while the same can be said about several other elected officials, Mr. Cruz’s involvement was manifestly different,” the complaint filed by The 65 Project asserts.

The complaint goes on to cite Cruz’s support and signing on to two lawsuits related to negating the results of the election in Pennsylvania, including agreeing to represent Donald Trump and the Pennsylvania GOP in suits before the Supreme Court.  Cruz’s clients lost both cases.The 65 Project asserts the Cruz’s actions reached far beyond the reasonable duties and responsibilities of a United States Senator, meaning that he was acting in his capacity as a lawyer, which would make him subject to the code of conduct of the Bar Association.

The group also states that various claims Cruz made, in relation to the lawsuits in which was acting as lawyer and in statements made in Congress and on television were made in Cruz’s role as counsel in these parties, not as a politician; Cruz, the group asserts, had to have known that the statements were false at the time because of other statements he made before or after.

“Mr. Cruz knew that the allegations he was echoing had already been reviewed and rejected by courts,” the complaint says. “And he knew that claims of voter fraud or the election being stolen were false.”

Paul Rosenzweig, one of the people involved in the effort and a lawyer who worked for Ken Starr during his three year investigation of the Clintons, said that the issue is not to punish lawyers who zealously represent their clients, but to discipline those who used their access to the courts to knowingly undermine the election.