Ms Powell and her kraken team are facing potential professional discipline:
She’s got money trouble in Florida, too, now:
Why not? Using fake charities to scam the rubes is straight out of the Trump playbook.
The “kraken” turned out to be a hand puppet slowly releasing the air from a balloon.
Also I would note that confirmation bias is an affliction that affects the dumb and the smart fairly equally. Being smart can give you the ability to come up with creative ways to convince yourself that the facts support what you want to believe. I would imagine a lawyer, who is used to trying to make any and all facts fit their side of the case, would be particularly susceptible.
Or just be highly compartmentalized. See, for example, Ben Carson. By all accounts he was a gifted and accomplished surgeon. And by all evidence, he is a complete dumbass in most other respects.
This is an odd understanding of what lawyers do. A good trial lawyer is one of the most sceptical beasts around, both in assessing their their own evidence, and the other side’s. Taking a hard-nosed approach to the evidence is essential.
For example, suppose you’re a lawyer who takes civil litigation suits on a contingency. That means that you’re putting your own money on the line. If you’re not successful on your client’s case, you’re personally out of pocket. All that money you’ve personally put into bringing the matter to trial is gone.
That means that you have to be realistic about your chances of success, and that means taking a hard look at the evidence the client is relying on. If you continually take weak cases to court, you’ll be running your practice at a loss, and eventually you will go bankrupt. You only take cases to court that you think you’ve got a good shot at winning, based on a realistic assessment of your client’s evidence, and the evidence on the other side.
That’s an aspect of the practice of law that is relevant to concerns about frivolous lawsuits. The market itself imposes a restraint on frivolous lawsuits, by making lawyers on contingency take a hard look at the evidence and passing on it if they don’t think they have a reasonable chance of success.
That’s also why what Powell has been doing is so unusual. She had a good rep before this, I gather, just like Rudy did. What is it about Trump that sucks smart people into the crazy zone? I just don’t get it.
It’s a cult. Pure and simple.
Dominion argues that Powell, Ghouliani et al do it just hob-knob with those in power. “Look at me! The President takes my calls! I sometimes actually speak with him!” Importance by association, as it were. That makes as much sense to me as anything else.
I’m late to the game here, but this was well-played 
If you’re looking for a good chuckle this morning, you can check out the live Zoom hearing into sanctions for the Ktaken team.
The crazy is on full display. As is the lying.
I love that L. Lin Wood is claiming that he had nothing to do with the lawsuit that has his name on it, that he promoted multiple times on national television AND which he cited in a subsequent court filing in another state.
[Eddie Murphy voice]
It wasn’t me.
[/Eddie Murphy voice]
And Powell is claiming she specifically asked Wood’s permission before putting his name on the lawsuit.
It’s an ouroboros of under-bus-throwing.
I’m loving the “we’re too stupid to understand the falsities* we submitted based on Ramsland and Spyder” so you can’t sanction us" defense.
*They’re not really falsities until you hold an actual hearing, despite all the evidence in the public record.
It’s a tough call. Nobody wants to hold multiple evidentiary hearings in court to establish by a preponderance of the evidence just how many false allegations the Krakens made in their filings. It would be fascinating and fun to see them squirm as lie after lie is unraveled in court. But I don’t think it would matter at all, because the Kraken’s lawyers will (and have) simply argue that “sure they’re all falsities, but we were too dumb to have known it.”
The judge is right that lawyers have a duty to review the allegations in the affidavits they submit. It certainly wasn’t done here.
You might think “We admit we’re too stupid to do our job properly” would in itself be compelling evidence for sanctions and/or disbarment.
Sidebar: don’t you love it when there are four skulls in a row? Like SDMB bingo or something.
Kudos to Donald Campbell for his valiant, if incredibly tenuous, arguments to help the Krakens. One shining beacon of rationality in a sea of obfuscation and ass-covering.
Another burst of laughter from me when Fink (Detroit’s lawyer) says something along the lines “I do not doubt Ms. Haller when she says she doesn’t understand the question”.
Ouch.
The judge is seriously losing patience with Mr. Campbell.
This is not going well for them.