Professor Bruce Green explains why ethics complaints against Trump lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and others who filed numerous suits trying to overturn the 2020 election will be difficult to prove.
When lawyers are sanctioned, it’s usually for egregious conduct like stealing a client’s money or committing other crimes, said Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham Law School. Sanctioning a lawyer for what they put in a lawsuit is trickier.
“The line between a weak claim or a losing claim on the one hand and a frivolous one on the other is sometimes not so clear,” Green said. “You have to have some facts to support your claim, and you have to have some legal arguments that aren’t ridiculous.”