In exchange for truthful testimony at future trials, Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings. She had been charged with two counts, including racketeering.
The terms of the plea agreement also include five years probation, $5,000 restitution to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, 100 hours community service and a letter of apology to the people of Georgia.
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Be nice if she (not to mention all the other lawyers associated with the orange menace) would also lose her license to practice law.
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That would likely depend her local state bar’s rules of professional conduct… a small number of them do have rules about felony convictions. Also, I’d think the facts of the charge she’s pleading to (false statements and writings) would have some conduct implications as well. But, I don’t think that would be directly in the hands of the judge in Georgia.
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Let’s hope next time he gets jail. Don will never pay these petty fines.
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“One could target another with respectful but vigorous political advocacy[…]”
It’d be really nice if Trump would do that, instead of his usual BS.
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Adds some information about the plea deals, possible implications, etc.
(From the video above, near the 21:00 mark):
“[T]he Colorado Bar has already disciplined Ellis for making 10 false statements while she represented Trump. The Bar could seek her disbarment or suspension for the felony conviction.”
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A California judge made a “preliminary finding” Thursday that attorney John Eastman breached professional ethics when he aided Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, a significant milestone in the lengthy proceedings over whether Eastman should lose his license to practice law.
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“I beseech you to control him,” the judge added. “If you can’t, I will.”
Fingers crossed that the judge “controls” Turmp.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/
“We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections,” Trump said toward the end of his speech, repeating his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. “They’ll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”
“The language is the language that dictators use to instill fear,” said Timothy Naftali, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “When you dehumanize an opponent, you strip them of their constitutional rights to participate securely in a democracy because you’re saying they’re not human. That’s what dictators do.”
Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesman, told The Post “those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
(emphasis added)
Though he did clarify:
Cheung later clarified that he meant to say their “sad, miserable existence" instead of their “entire existence.”
Yeah. That’s clearly better. Not something an authoritarian dictator would say at all. 
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That is sooo 2015.
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Interesting how fascists always like to lump fascists in with communists, Marxists and radical left thugs.
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Yeah, be angry, Don. Angry! Angry! Poison your life!
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Yeah, they ain’t no Perry Mason and Della Street, but those two never defended losers.
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(The hearing has ended now… Hampton’s lawyer, Miller, admits to releasing the videos starting at about 20:35 and goes on to argue vaguely that not releasing all pre-trial evidence immediately to the public somehow “misleads the public about what’s going on”. Also, lots of talk about how his client “wants to be totally transparent”, which, well… that’s kind of what got your client in trouble to start with.)
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