7 Pa. lawyers involved in Trump's legal fight to overturn the 2020 election hit w/ethics complaints

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Seven Pa. lawyers involved in Trump’s legal fight to overturn the 2020 election are hit with ethics complaints

by Jeremy Roebuck
Published Jul 7, 2022



A legal advocacy group formed in hopes of disbarring and disciplining lawyers who aided Donald Trump’s push to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election filed complaints Thursday with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court against seven lawyers in the state for their involvement in the former president’s legal efforts. The list of those targeted by the 65 Project include bit players like attorney and conservative talk show host Marc A. Scaringi, of Harrisburg, who sponsored Rudy Giuliani to argue on behalf of the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania’s federal courts, as well as some of the most in-demand GOP elections lawyers in the state, like Ronald Hicks and Carolyn McGee, who most recently represented Republican Senate candidate David McCormick in recount litigation during his primary campaign against Mehmet Oz.

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In Pennsylvania, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which investigates allegations of attorney misconduct for the state Supreme Court, keeps complaints against lawyers private until they are vetted and deemed to have merit. There are no prohibitions, however, on the filer of a complaint speaking publicly about it.

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In its disciplinary complaints Thursday against Hicks, McGee, and Kerns, The 65 Project argued that their departures from the case — before the campaign’s arguments reached their most extreme — should not absolve them. “Withdrawing from the matter after helping light the fuse does not shield Mr. Hicks from responsibility,” the organization wrote, “nor does it alter the fact that appropriately disciplining him for this misconduct is an essential part of deterring future abuse.”

The other attorneys targeted by the 65 Project complaints Thursday include:

Brian Caffrey, a Harrisburg lawyer who worked alongside Scaringi and entered an appearance in the Trump for President v. Boockvar suit;

James Bopp Jr. and Anita Milanovich, conservative attorneys from Indiana and Montana, respectively, who filed a short-lived suit seeking to set aside Pennsylvania’s election results that was voluntarily withdrawn six days after filing;

and Walter Zimolong, a Wayne-based attorney also involved in that case.

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