Sidney Powell, a former attorney for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, has asked a federal court to reduce the legal fees requested by the City of Detroit for challenging its bogus voter fraud court cases.
The City of Detroit is seeking $ 182,193.75 in attorneys’ fees from Powell and his team for litigating a case alleging voter fraud during the 2020 Michigan presidential election. The fraud case was dismissed and Powell’s appeal and the subsequent petition to the Supreme Court of the United States were denied.
Now, Powell’s legal representatives have asked a federal district court to reduce the number of city fees requested to $ 21,964.75. The amount matches the amount requested by Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Clerk. State Attorney Jocelyn Benson for the legal fees associated with the same fraud cases brought by Powell and his team.
In a court docket filed Wednesday, Powell’s legal representatives said the city had no right to seek the attorneys ‘fees associated with his appeal. With those fees deducted, the city’s remaining attorneys’ fees amount to $ 156,116.25.
“That amount is far more than is necessary to compensate the City and deter misconduct,” Powelles legal representatives wrote in their file. “Sanctions under the inherent authority of the Court should be compensatory rather than punitive. ”
Powell’s attorneys further asserted that the billing for the city attorneys was vague, involved multiple duplicative job title charges by multiple attorneys, and included “media communications” and other duties that were not necessary to litigate Powell’s fraud case.
Powell and his team filed their initial fraud case in late November. The case claimed that poll workers in Detroit blocked Republican poll watchers, falsified and tampered with the ballots, and counted the defective ballots. As a remedy, the lawsuit petitioned the court. to decertify the Michigan results or certify them for Trump.
The court then dismissed the case, Powell and his team filed an appeal, and his team then petitioned the United States Supreme Court to suspend the Electoral College vote to declare now-President Joe Biden’s victory until the ruling was resolved. The appeal was denied by the Supreme Court, and the appeal was ultimately unsuccessful.
In her decision on the initial fraud case, Judge Linda Parker called the case “a profound and historic abuse of the judicial process” with the intent “to mislead a federal court and the American people” with. This is a brief summary.
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