When Lawyers Spread Disinformation

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information system, we brought you a conversation with two emergency room doctors about their efforts to push back against members of their profession spreading falsehoods about the coronavirus. Today, we’re going to take a look at another profession that’s been struggling to counter lies and falsehoods within its ranks: the law. Recently, lawyers involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election have faced professional discipline—like Rudy Giuliani, whose law license has been suspended temporarily in New York and D.C. while a New York ethics investigation remains ongoing.

Quinta Jurecic sat down with Paul Rosenzweig a contributing editor at Lawfare and a board member with the 65 Project, an organization that seeks to hold accountable lawyers who worked to help Trump hold onto power in 2020—often by spreading lies. He’s also spent many years working on issues related to legal ethics. So what avenues of discipline are available for lawyers who tell lies about elections? How does the legal discipline process work? And how effective can legal discipline be in reasserting the truth?

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1:08.7	When your client putatively commits a crime in front of you on the same phone call that
1:14.7	you're on, your job is to stop the call and tell him in a sidebar, sir, you can't say
1:24.3	that.
1:25.3	Period.
1:26.3	You just cannot ask for votes in Georgia.
1:29.8	And yet Trump's attorneys did not do that.
1:32.2	In fact, they double pumped him and helped him along.
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1:41.3	I'm Quinted Eurassic and this is the LawFair podcast August 5, 2022.
1:48.4	Today we're bringing you another episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on the online
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