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In 2020, Powell joined the legal team of President [[Donald Trump]] in an attempt to overturn President-elect [[Joe Biden]]'s victory over Trump in the [[2020 presidential election]]. After several interviews in which Powell spread additional [[Electoral fraud|election fraud]] conspiracy theories, Trump's legal team formally distanced itself from her, stating she was "practicing law on her own" and was not a member of the team, though she continued to meet with the president in the White House.<ref name="wolfe">{{Cite web|last=Wolfe|first=Jan|date=November 22, 2020|title=Trump campaign says Sidney Powell not a member of legal team|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-powell-idUSKBN2820UB|work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Bowden|first=John|date=November 22, 2020|title=Giuliani distances Trump campaign from attorney Sidney Powell|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/527105-giuliani-distances-trump-campaign-from-sidney-powell|access-date=November 22, 2020|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html|title=Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash|first=Kevin Liptak and Pamela Brown|last=CNN|website=CNN}}</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1341138750085206016</ref> Powell continued filing election lawsuits independently in district courts, and ultimately lost four federal lawsuits in [[Michigan]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Arizona]], and [[Wisconsin]]. |
In 2020, Powell joined the legal team of President [[Donald Trump]] in an attempt to overturn President-elect [[Joe Biden]]'s victory over Trump in the [[2020 presidential election]]. After several interviews in which Powell spread additional [[Electoral fraud|election fraud]] conspiracy theories, Trump's legal team formally distanced itself from her, stating she was "practicing law on her own" and was not a member of the team, though she continued to meet with the president in the White House.<ref name="wolfe">{{Cite web|last=Wolfe|first=Jan|date=November 22, 2020|title=Trump campaign says Sidney Powell not a member of legal team|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-powell-idUSKBN2820UB|work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Bowden|first=John|date=November 22, 2020|title=Giuliani distances Trump campaign from attorney Sidney Powell|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/527105-giuliani-distances-trump-campaign-from-sidney-powell|access-date=November 22, 2020|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html|title=Heated Oval Office meeting included talk of special counsel, martial law as Trump advisers clash|first=Kevin Liptak and Pamela Brown|last=CNN|website=CNN}}</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1341138750085206016</ref> Powell continued filing election lawsuits independently in district courts, and ultimately lost four federal lawsuits in [[Michigan]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], [[Arizona]], and [[Wisconsin]]. |
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Powell has promoted numerous [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]. She has claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert "[[Deep state in the United States|deep state]]" operation,<ref name="maga" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=June 12, 2019|title=Michael Flynn hires Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell, a conspiracy theorist who calls Mueller a 'creep'|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/06/12/michael-flynn-hires-dallas-lawyer-sidney-powell-a-conspiracy-theorist-who-calls-mueller-a-creep/|access-date=November 20, 2020|newspaper=[[Dallas News]]|language=en|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117193736/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/06/12/michael-flynn-hires-dallas-lawyer-sidney-powell-a-conspiracy-theorist-who-calls-mueller-a-creep/|url-status=live}}</ref> and has also promoted personalities and slogans associated with the [[QAnon]] conspiracy theory. In regards to the [[U.S. presidential election, 2020|2020 presidential election]], Powell alleges that a secret international cabal involving communists, "[[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|globalists]]", [[George Soros]], [[Hugo Chávez]] (who died in 2013), the [[Clinton Foundation]], the [[CIA]], and thousands of Democratic and Republican officials, including Trump ally and [[Georgia Governor|Georgia governor]] [[Brian Kemp]], used voting machines to transfer millions of votes away from Trump to Biden.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Walsh|first=Joe|date=November 20, 2020|title=Who Is Sidney Powell? Meet Trump's New Top Conspiracy Theorist|work=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=2ed589a51f9d|url-status=live|access-date=November 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121172738/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=2ed589a51f9d|archive-date=November 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=Bump|first=Philip|title=Here's how seriously you should take the Trump legal team's conspiracy theories|language=en-US|work=[[Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/heres-how-seriously-you-should-take-trump-legal-teams-conspiracy-theories/|url-status=live|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120033602/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/heres-how-seriously-you-should-take-trump-legal-teams-conspiracy-theories/|archive-date=November 20, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Qiu|first=Linda|date=November 19, 2020|title=How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela's elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119232027/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html|archive-date=November 19, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Powell has also |
Powell has promoted numerous [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]]. She has claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert "[[Deep state in the United States|deep state]]" operation,<ref name="maga" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=June 12, 2019|title=Michael Flynn hires Dallas lawyer Sidney Powell, a conspiracy theorist who calls Mueller a 'creep'|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/06/12/michael-flynn-hires-dallas-lawyer-sidney-powell-a-conspiracy-theorist-who-calls-mueller-a-creep/|access-date=November 20, 2020|newspaper=[[Dallas News]]|language=en|archive-date=November 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117193736/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2019/06/12/michael-flynn-hires-dallas-lawyer-sidney-powell-a-conspiracy-theorist-who-calls-mueller-a-creep/|url-status=live}}</ref> and has also promoted personalities and slogans associated with the [[QAnon]] conspiracy theory. In regards to the [[U.S. presidential election, 2020|2020 presidential election]], Powell alleges that a secret international cabal involving communists, "[[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|globalists]]", [[George Soros]], [[Hugo Chávez]] (who died in 2013), the [[Clinton Foundation]], the [[CIA]], and thousands of Democratic and Republican officials, including Trump ally and [[Georgia Governor|Georgia governor]] [[Brian Kemp]], used voting machines to transfer millions of votes away from Trump to Biden.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Walsh|first=Joe|date=November 20, 2020|title=Who Is Sidney Powell? Meet Trump's New Top Conspiracy Theorist|work=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=2ed589a51f9d|url-status=live|access-date=November 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121172738/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2020/11/20/who-is-sidney-powell-meet-trumps-new-top-conspiracy-theorist/?sh=2ed589a51f9d|archive-date=November 21, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=Bump|first=Philip|title=Here's how seriously you should take the Trump legal team's conspiracy theories|language=en-US|work=[[Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/heres-how-seriously-you-should-take-trump-legal-teams-conspiracy-theories/|url-status=live|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120033602/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/19/heres-how-seriously-you-should-take-trump-legal-teams-conspiracy-theories/|archive-date=November 20, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Qiu|first=Linda|date=November 19, 2020|title=How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela's elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119232027/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/technology/sidney-powell-venezuela.html|archive-date=November 19, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Powell has also accused [[Dominion Voting Systems]] and others of engaging in a conspiracy to rig the election against Trump, and Dominion has demanded she retract the allegations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/526798-ernst-trump-lawyer-claim-that-candidates-pay-to-rig-elections-absolutely|title=Ernst: Trump lawyer claim that candidates pay to rig elections 'absolutely outrageous'|first=Lauren|last=Vella|date=November 19, 2020|newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/days-after-smartmatics-legal-threat-dominion-voting-systems-follows-suit-with-demand-letter-to-sidney-powell/|title=Days After Smartmatic’s Legal Threat, Dominion Voting Systems Follows Suit with Demand Letter to Sidney Powell|date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> The [[Detroit|city of Detroit]] asked a federal judge to sanction Powell for "frivolously undermining people’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government.”<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-16|title=Detroit Is Trying to Get Sidney Powell Fined, Banned from Court, and Referred to the Bar for Filing the 'Kraken'|url=https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/detroit-is-trying-to-get-sidney-powell-fined-banned-from-court-and-referred-to-the-bar-for-filing-the-kraken/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=Law & Crime|language=en}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Sidney Powell | |
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Born | 1955 (age 68–69) Durham, North Carolina, U.S. |
Education | University of North Carolina (BA, JD) |
Occupation | Attorney |
Years active | 1978–present |
Website | Official website |
Sidney Katherine Powell (born 1955)[1] is an American attorney and former federal prosecutor.
After graduating from law school in 1978, Powell began her career as an assistant United States attorney in the Western District of Texas. During her tenure she prosecuted Jimmy Chagra.[2] In 1988, she ceased working as a prosecutor and, in 1993, established her own firm. She has acted in appellate matters as a prosecutor and defense counsel.[3][2] She represented executives in the Enron scandal,[4] and in 2019, defended General Michael Flynn in United States v. Flynn.[5]
In 2020, Powell joined the legal team of President Donald Trump in an attempt to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election. After several interviews in which Powell spread additional election fraud conspiracy theories, Trump's legal team formally distanced itself from her, stating she was "practicing law on her own" and was not a member of the team, though she continued to meet with the president in the White House.[6][7][8][9] Powell continued filing election lawsuits independently in district courts, and ultimately lost four federal lawsuits in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Powell has promoted numerous conspiracy theories. She has claimed that Flynn was framed by a covert "deep state" operation,[5][10] and has also promoted personalities and slogans associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory. In regards to the 2020 presidential election, Powell alleges that a secret international cabal involving communists, "globalists", George Soros, Hugo Chávez (who died in 2013), the Clinton Foundation, the CIA, and thousands of Democratic and Republican officials, including Trump ally and Georgia governor Brian Kemp, used voting machines to transfer millions of votes away from Trump to Biden.[11][12][13] Powell has also accused Dominion Voting Systems and others of engaging in a conspiracy to rig the election against Trump, and Dominion has demanded she retract the allegations.[14][15] The city of Detroit asked a federal judge to sanction Powell for "frivolously undermining people’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government.”[16]
Early life
Sidney Katherine Powell was born in Durham, North Carolina, grew up in the city of Raleigh, and knew from an early age that she wanted to be a lawyer.[5][17] She graduated from Needham Broughton High School and went on to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts.[5] At the age of 19, she was accepted into the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she graduated in 1978 with a Juris Doctor degree.[18] She began her legal career as one of the youngest federal prosecutors in the US.[17]
Career
From 1978 through 1988, Powell served as an assistant United States attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, where she handled civil and criminal trial work. She was appointed Appellate Section Chief for the Western District of Texas and then the Northern District of Texas.[2][19]
In 1993, Powell established her own law firm in Dallas, Texas.[2] Around 2002, she began to practice in Asheville, North Carolina,[17] but moved back to Texas later.[20]
Assassination of Judge John H. Wood
In 1979, Powell was one of the prosecutors in the trial of Jimmy Chagra.[21][22] He was accused in the assassination of John H. Wood Jr., a federal judge from Texas. Chagra was acquitted for involvement in the assassination but convicted on other charges.[23] He later admitted to his role in the conspiracy to murder the judge.[24]
Enron scandal
Powell spent nearly a decade in the 2000s representing firms and executives involved in the Enron scandal, including the accounting firm Arthur Andersen and former Merrill Lynch executive Jim Brown.[4] Powell became an outspoken critic of the Enron Task Force prosecutions, and especially accused prosecutor Andrew Weissmann of overreach.[25] After this experience, Powell went on to write extensively about prosecutorial abuses; namely, the 2014 book "Licensed to Lie".[5] The book was noticed by then-Senator Orrin Hatch, who described it as "powerful".[22]
Michael Flynn
After publishing her first book, Powell continued writing opinion pieces for right-leaning websites.[26][27][22] In 2017, Weissmann was selected to join Robert Mueller's Special Counsel Investigation, reviving interest in Licensed to Lie from Newt Gingrich and Sean Hannity.[22] Using her status as a former federal prosecutor, Powell became a leading voice against the Mueller Probe;[22] in a February 2018 op-ed, Powell wrote that General Michael Flynn should "withdraw his guilty plea" for making false statements to the FBI, alleging "egregious government misconduct".[10] Powell's appearances on Fox News to discuss the Flynn case were noticed by President Donald Trump, and the two spoke on several occasions. In November 2018, Powell spoke at a conference to raise money for Flynn's defense, where she met Flynn's siblings.[5] They agreed that Flynn was the victim of a "deep state plot", and had only pleaded guilty because he was coerced.[5]
In June 2019, Flynn released his law firm of Covington & Burling, and retained Powell to serve as his lead attorney.[5] On the same day this was disclosed, Powell sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting the "utmost confidentiality" and argued that Flynn's prosecution was due to "corruption of our beloved government institutions for what appears to be political purposes."[28][29] Among other things, she requested that Barr appoint an outsider to investigate. Six months later, Barr appointed Jeffrey Jensen to conduct such an investigation.[30]
In May 2020, the Justice Department filed a motion with presiding federal judge Emmett Sullivan to drop Flynn's prosecution.[31] Sullivan did not immediately grant the motion, and Powell later requested a writ of mandamus from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to compel Sullivan to drop the case. After an initial ruling in favor of Powell by a three-judge panel of the Court, the case was appealed to the full Court, which denied the mandamus request in an 8–2 ruling, returning the case to Sullivan's court.[32] Powell had argued to the full Court that Sullivan's role was "ministerial," giving him no discretion but to comply with the Justice Department motion, to which judge Thomas Griffith replied, "It's not ministerial and you know it's not. So it's not ministerial, so that means that the judge has to do some thinking about it, right?"[33] Other judges on the Court also pushed back on Powell's characterization of a federal judge's role.[34]
Soon after taking the Flynn case, Powell had accused the Justice Department of prosecutorial misconduct against Flynn; in a footnote to a June 2020 court brief, the department described Powell's allegations as "unfounded and provide no basis for impugning the prosecutors from the D.C. United States Attorney's Office."[5][35][36]
Ultimately, in November 2020, President Trump issued a pardon for Flynn. According to a Justice Department official, the Justice Department was not consulted on the pardon.[37]
Powell has been described as a proponent of conspiracy theories about Flynn, namely that he had been framed by members of the "deep state" who were trying to eject President Donald Trump from office.[5][10][22]
2020 presidential election
Days before the 2020 presidential election, Dennis Montgomery, a software designer with a history of making dubious claims, asserted that a government supercomputer program would be used to switch votes from Trump to Biden on voting machines. Powell promoted the conspiracy theory on Lou Dobbs Tonight on November 6,[38][39] and again two days later on Maria Bartiromo's Fox Business program, claiming to have "evidence that that is exactly what happened."[40] She also asserted that the CIA ignored warnings about the software, and urged Trump to fire director Gina Haspel.[41] Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), characterized the supercomputer claim as "nonsense" and a "hoax."[42][43] CISA described the 2020 election as "the most secure in American history," with "no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised."[42][43] Trump claimed Krebs's analysis was "highly inaccurate" and Krebs was later fired by tweet.[44]
In the wake of the election, President Donald Trump established a legal team to challenge the legitimacy of the results.[45] On November 14, Trump named Rudy Giuliani to lead the team, with Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Jenna Ellis, and Powell as members of this team.[46] The team proceeded to file numerous lawsuits in several states over alleged vote harvesting, illegal votes, machine errors, vote dumps, and late-counted votes. Precisely how Powell gained prominence in the legal team is unknown, even to some campaign officials. One official claimed Powell "simply showed up at headquarters".[22]
Holding a press conference on November 19, Giuliani and Powell alleged multiple instances of voter fraud in key states.[47] They cited an affidavit – filed by Russell Ramsland and L. Lin Wood, on behalf of the Trump campaign[48] – as evidence of manipulated results. In its comparison of votes cast in Michigan, against total voters registered, Powell asserted that they found over-voting of "up to 350 percent in some places."[47] However, the affidavit's conclusion was erroneous; it had compared the Michigan vote tallies against population data from Minnesota (whose respective abbreviations are MI and MN, a possible source of the error).[48][49] When The Washington Post independently checked the numbers, no voter discrepancies were found.[47] When questioned the next day, Wood described this as "a simple mistake" and said the affidavit "will be corrected if it hasn't been already".[48]
After Giuliani's segment ended, Powell took the lectern and alleged, without evidence, that an international Communist plot had been engineered by Venezuela, Cuba, China, Hugo Chávez (who died in 2013), George Soros, and the Clinton Foundation, to rig the 2020 election.[12][50] She also alleged that Dominion Voting Systems "can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Biden."[51] The source for many of these claims appeared to be far right news organization One America News Network (OANN).[12] She also repeated a conspiracy theory[52] spread by Congressman Louie Gohmert, OANN and others:[53] that accurate voting results had been transmitted to the German office of the Spanish electronic voting firm Scytl, where they were tabulated to reveal a landslide victory for Trump, after which a company server was supposedly seized in a raid by the United States Army.[12] The US Army and Scytl refuted these claims:[54] Scytl has not had any offices in Germany since September 2019, and does not tabulate US votes.[55][56]
Later that evening on his Fox News program Tucker Carlson Tonight, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said he had invited Powell onto the show to provide proof of her allegations. According to Carlson, after repeated requests, Powell became angry and said to "stop contacting her". Carlson's team contacted other figures in the Trump campaign, who said that Powell had given them no evidence for her allegations.[57]
In a subsequent interview with Newsmax on November 21,[58] Powell accused Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, of being "in on the Dominion scam" and suggested financial impropriety.[59] Powell additionally alleged that fraud had cost Doug Collins the nonpartisan blanket primary against incumbent Kelly Loeffler in the Senate race in Georgia.[60] She also claimed the Democratic Party had used rigged Dominion machines to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary, and that Sanders learned of this but "sold out."[61] She stated she would "blow up" Georgia with a "biblical" court filing.[62] Powell suggested that candidates "paid to have the system rigged to work for them."[63] On the basis of these claims, Powell called for Republican-controlled state legislatures in swing states to disregard the election results and appoint a slate of "loyal" electors who would vote to re-elect President Trump,[64] based on authority supposedly resting in Article Two of the Constitution.[65]
On November 22, 2020, Giuliani and Ellis issued a statement that Powell was "practicing law on her own" and was not (or was no longer) a part of the Trump legal team.[66][67][68] According to The Washington Post, the Trump campaign cut ties with Powell because she was seen as harming Trump's broader legal efforts, and because President Trump disliked the coverage she received from Tucker Carlson Tonight.[69] Shortly after the announcement, her client Michael Flynn tweeted that Twitter had suspended her account for twelve hours, and that she agreed with the campaign's announcement, and was "staying the course" to prove election fraud.[70] On November 26, Dominion Voting Systems released a statement refuting Powell's claims of fraud.[71][22]
On December 18, during a White House meeting with Powell, Pat Cipollone, and Rudy Giuliani, Trump suggested naming Powell as a special counsel to investigate allegations of election fraud. Most Trump advisors opposed the idea, while Powell characterized them as quitters.[72] The meeting was reportedly heated and included Michael Flynn and his proposal for the president to declare martial law.[73]
Dominion sent a letter to Powell on December 16 demanding she publicly retract her baseless allegations about the company.[15] Shortly thereafter, the Trump legal team instructed dozens of staff members to preserve all documents relating to Dominion, Powell and others for any future litigation.[74] Smartmatic send a similar demand letter to conservative television outlets and within days Fox News, its sister network Fox Business and Newsmax had broadcast segments walking back conspiracy allegations they had previously promoted.[75][76][77]
Independent election lawsuits
Upon leaving the president's legal team, Powell was embraced by QAnon followers, many of whom had become discouraged that years of predictions of a Trump landslide victory and coming revelations about his enemies had not materialized.[78][79] Powell continued to file election lawsuits on her own. While working for Trump, Powell stated she would "release the Kraken", a catchphrase from a 1981 film, Clash of the Titans, and the expression spread across Twitter. Just before midnight on December 2, Powell and Lin Wood filed a motion with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals seeking a temporary injunction to decertify the presidential election results, pending an inspection of Dominion voting machines; the Court dismissed the case two days later.[80][81]
Powell's "Kraken" lawsuits suffered from significant "sloppy mistakes", described Zach Montellaro and Kyle Cheney of Politico.[82] In Powell's Georgia lawsuit, she claimed that Biden votes were switched by a computer system to become Trump votes, before she amended the filing.[83] In Powell's submissions to district courts for her Georgia and Michigan cases, "district" was misspelled three different ways on the first pages.[84] Powell's Michigan filing also had many formatting errors and wrongly named one of her experts.[84][85]
Two Republicans indicated that they had been included as a plaintiff in election-related lawsuits Powell brought, despite them not having given permission to be included (one later agreed to remain as a plaintiff). This happened in Powell's Georgia and Wisconsin lawsuits.[82][86][87]
As part of her evidence in the Georgia lawsuit, Powell included an affidavit from Ron Watkins, a former administrator of 8chan/8kun; the online home of QAnon. In his affidavit, Watkins stated that his reading of an online user guide for Dominion Voting Systems software led him to conclude that election fraud might be "within the realm of possibility". Watkins did not provide any legitimate evidence of fraud.[88] Also in the Georgia lawsuit, Powell claimed that "a certificate from the [Georgia] Secretary of State was awarded to Dominion Voting Systems but is undated", however, the attached certificate had been apparently edited to remove the date (the actual certificate is dated and available publicly).[82][89]
As part of her evidence in the Michigan lawsuit, Powell submitted her witness' declaration that Joe Biden had "received more than 100% of the votes" in Edison County; however, there is no Edison County anywhere in Michigan, nor any other state in the United States.[90][91] There is, however, an Edison Township in Swift County, Minnesota, leading to speculation that the information was again taken from a list of Minnesota precincts.[92]
Powell's Wisconsin lawsuit attempted to secure an "expedited" injunction, yet Powell's initial filings did not "indicate whether the plaintiffs are asking the court to act more quickly or why", stated the presiding district judge.[82] Powell's initial filings also saw no schedule proposed, and no hearing requested, added the judge.[82] Additionally, Powell's Wisconsin lawsuit demanded the release of video footage from a voting center in the state of Michigan.[82] Mistaken references were also made to the election in the state of Georgia, and the Georgia legislature, in the Wisconsin lawsuit.[82]
Powell's lawsuits in four states cited a secret witness, code-named "Spyder", or "Spider", who alleges that American voting systems were "certainly compromised by rogue actors, such as Iran and China". Although Spyder's real name was redacted from submitted documents, a bookmark in the file revealed his identity: Joshua Merritt, an IT consultant. Although Powell's filings describe Merritt as a former "military intelligence expert", in actuality he never worked in military intelligence, and had not finished a training course in military intelligence, stated the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence. Merritt acknowledged that the description was wrong; he attributed the error to Powell's "clerks", saying that it was their writing. However, Merritt claimed he did finish the training, producing an "unofficial transcript" as evidence.[93]
On November 29, a district judge issued a temporary restraining order in favour of Powell's plaintiffs that voting machines in Georgia's Cobb, Gwinnett and Cherokee Counties were to preserve their data, after Powell's fellow lawyer Lin Wood had argued to retain "this information on a very limited basis". Powell appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, wanting to expand the restraining order. A three-judge panel unanimously dismissed Powell's appeal on December 4, citing a failure to prove that the restraining order caused serious harm. The panel also indicated that the lawsuit, in which Powell was also seeking to have voting machines inspected, was "considerably delayed" by the appeal.[94][95][96]
On December 7, Powell lost one of the federal lawsuits she litigated in Michigan, where she had argued to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the state and award the victory to Donald Trump. The plaintiffs only offered "theories, conjecture, and speculation" of potential vote switching, stated the judge. The judge also declared that the "ship has sailed" for most of the relief requested by the plaintiffs, while the rest "is beyond the power of any court." In any case, the relief requested "greatly harm the public interest", while the judge felt that the plaintiffs’ real motive for filing the case was not to win, but to shake "people’s faith in the democratic process and their trust in our government".[97]
Also on December 7, Powell lost another federal lawsuit she litigated, this time in Georgia, when the judge dismissed the case in a ruling from the bench.[98] The judge ruled that the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to bring the case, filed the case too late (as the Dominion machines were adopted months earlier), and filed the case in the wrong venue (of which the right venue would be a state court).[99] In any case, the relief sought by Powell, which was to decertify Joe Biden's victory in Georgia, was impossible to grant, stated the judge.[100]
On December 9, Powell lost a third election-related federal lawsuit she litigated, in Arizona, where she had attempted to have Joe Biden's victory in Arizona decertified. The judge ruled that Powell's plaintiffs lacked legal standing, and the allegations of impropriety brought were "sorely wanting of relevant or reliable evidence", instead being "largely based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and irrelevant analysis of unrelated elections". The judge singled out the fraud allegations being put forth, writing that they "fail in their particularity and plausibility". The judge ruled that there would be "extreme, and entirely unprecedented" harm to Arizona's 3+ million voters to entertain Powell's lawsuit "at this late date".[101][102]
Also on December 9, Powell lost the fourth election-related federal lawsuit she litigated, in Wisconsin, where she had attempted to decertify Joe Biden's victory in the state, and instead have the victory awarded to Donald Trump. The judge wrote that the "federal court has no authority or jurisdiction to grant the relief the remaining plaintiff seeks". The litigation on behalf of the plaintiff was "sometimes odd and often harried", and it ultimately failed to establish why a federal case was appropriate. The judge also repeatedly stated that the plaintiff did not have legal standing to bring the case. The judge concluded that granting the relief would be against the Constitution, and thus dismissed the case.[103]
QAnon
Powell has been described by some sources as a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory,[104][105] a far-right conspiracy theory which alleges that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against President Donald Trump, who is fighting the cabal.[106] Powell has retweeted major QAnon accounts and catchphrases and appeared on QAnon shows on YouTube,[105] but has denied knowledge of QAnon.[5]
Legal Defense Fund for the American Republic
In November 2020, Powell established Legal Defense Fund for the American Republic, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization with stated purpose to collect funds to help prosecute fraud in U.S. elections.[107]
Writing
Powell has written opinion pieces for The New York Observer, The Daily Caller, The Hill, National Review,[26] Fox News, and media organizations and conservative content producers.[108][27] She has published two books:
- Powell, Sidney K. (May 1, 2014). Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. Brown Books. ISBN 978-1-61254-149-5. OCLC 870288205.[109]
- Powell, Sidney K.; Silverglate, Harvey A. (February 18, 2020). Conviction Machine: Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1-59403-803-7. OCLC 1104857327.
In addition, Powell has published several journal articles on law practice. Examples include:
- Powell, Sidney (1988). "Federal Jurisdiction in Criminal Appeals—Appealable Orders in the Fifth Circuit". Texas Tech Law Review. 19 (3): 1003–1028.
- Powell, Sidney (1990). "Federal Appeals in the Fifth Circuit: Tips for the Texas Practitioner". Baylor Law Review. 42 (1): 97–140.
- Gabriel, Henry D; Powell, Sidney (1994). Federal Appellate Practice Guide: Fifth Circuit. Rochester, New York: Lawyers Cooperative Publishing. OCLC 30772185.
Personal life and other ventures
Powell has a son from a marriage that ended in divorce “decades ago”. In 2004, she founded a non-profit for victims of domestic violence.[17] She has participated in volunteer work for women's shelters and other charities.[5] Powell served as producer on the drama Decoding Annie Parker (2013), providing guidance to help bring the film to a commercial release. The film tells the story of Annie Parker[110] and the discovery of the BRCA1 breast cancer gene. The film went on to raise millions of dollars for cancer charities.[111] Powell was not recalled as “being a staunch conservative or even very political” by people who interacted with her during her time in Asheville, North Carolina.[17]
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