Liam Conner
Washington – Jenna Ellis, who served as former President Donald Trump’s legal advisor during the 2020 election, is banned from practicing law in the state of Colorado for three years, according to an agreement reached with state legal regulators.
Under the agreement approved Tuesday by presiding disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court, Ellis’ suspension of her law license takes effect July 2. Ellis’s accusation in Fulton County, Georgia, for his alleged role in a scheme to overturn the results of the state’s 2020 presidential election. She, Trump and 17 others were initially accused in wide-ranging extortion case brought by Fulton County prosecutors last August.
Elis pleaded guilty in October to a single felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writing in violation of Georgia law and was sentenced to five years probation. The charge was linked to false statements about the election made by Trump’s then-attorney Rudy Giuliani and another Trump campaign lawyer before a Georgia Senate subcommittee in December 2020.
Born in Colorado, Ellis was expelled from the state and had was censored in March 2023 as a result of unsubstantiated claims she made about the integrity of the 2020 election while serving as legal counsel to Trump and his campaign. The former president and his allies falsely claimed that the election was rigged against him, even though there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
O stipulation celebrated by the Colorado State Attorney’s Office Regulatory Board and Ellis noted that while “disbarment is the presumptive sanction” for his misconduct, “it is significant that his criminal culpability is due to his conduct as an accomplice, not a principal.”
In a letter dated May 22, written by Ellis as part of the stipulation, she said she wanted to express “deep remorse” for her conduct surrounding the 2020 election and that she was “wrong to engage” in activities that spread unsubstantiated allegations. that the last presidential contest was full of electoral fraud.
“I admit that I was overzealous in believing the ‘facts’ sold to support the challenge, which were fabricated and false,” Ellis wrote. “If I had fulfilled my duty to investigate these alleged facts before promoting them as truth, I do not believe I would be here. I turned a blind eye to the possibility that senior lawyers for the Trump Campaign were embracing claims they knew or should have known were false. I just went along with it.
She said millions of Americans were “misled” by what she said was the “cynical” campaign to overturn the 2020 election results.
“For democracy to work and prosper, people have to believe that their votes count and that the electoral system is fair. This is what ‘election integrity’ should mean, not what it has become for many: a political statement of ‘loyalty,'” Ellis wrote. “This faith in the integrity of our elections has been undermined. That’s the damage.”
She said she “gratefully accepts” the three-year suspension from practicing law in the state of Colorado and reiterated her regret for having been involved in spreading false claims about the election.
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