Trump Lawyer Slinks Off To Retirement Before He Can Be Disbarred

This outcome falls into several categories, such as "everything Trump touches dies" and "fuck around and find out":

Attorney Lin Wood, who filed legal challenges seeking to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, is relinquishing his law license, electing to retire from practicing rather than face possible disbarment. Multiple states have weighed disciplining him for pushing Trump’s false claims that he defeated Joe Biden.

On Tuesday, Wood asked officials in his home state of Georgia to “retire” his law license in light of “disciplinary proceedings pending against me.” In the request, made in a letter and posted on his Telegram account, Wood acknowledges that he is “prohibited from practicing law in this State and in any other state or jurisdiction and that I may not reapply for admission.”  [snip]

In the wake of the 2020 election, Trump praised Wood as doing a “good job” filing legal challenges seeking to overturn his loss, though Trump’s campaign at times distanced itself from him. Dozens of lawsuits making such allegations were rejected by the courts across the country.

Officials in Georgia had been weighing whether to disbar Wood over his efforts, holding a disciplinary trial earlier this year. Wood sued the state bar in 2022, claiming the bar’s request that he undergo a mental health evaluation as part of its probe violated his constitutional rights, but a federal appeals court tossed that ruling, saying Wood failed to show there was “bad faith” behind the request.  [snip]

Other attorneys affiliated with efforts to keep Trump in power following his 2020 election loss have faced similar challenges. Attorney John Eastman, architect of that strategy, faces 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having then-Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of Biden’s victory.

May his "retirement" not be golden.

Losing your license also may be the least of the problems facing the Malignant Loser's "attorneys." Rudy "Toot Toot" Giuliani and Sidney Powell have already been sanctioned by federal courts for their roles in covering up for the Malignant Loser in various investigations.  More seriously, Special Counsel Jack Smith appears to be targeting the Malignant Loser's "attorneys," including Wood, Rudy and Powell for the roles they played in the failed 2020 election coup attempt/ fake electors scheme.  

These misfits are due all the dishonor and opprobrium to which they have and will be subject; some time in the slammer would be true justice, though, given their eager participation in the first (and hopefully last) attempted coup in the nation's history.  Fingers and toes crossed.

BONUS:  Giuliani has now been recommended for disbarment in Washington, DC.  It's a start.

(Image:  Three stooges: Wood, Giuliani, Powell/ MSNBC/ Reuters; Getty)