Boasberg said Kaardal’s statements for his actions were insufficient, and it was therefore necessary to refer to a court lawyer.
“As he did not adequately allay the court’s concerns about potential bad faith, it will refer the matter to the committee by separate letter so that it can determine whether discipline is appropriate,” the judge said.
The suit, Wisconsin Voters Alliance vs. Pence, claims that the election procedures in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were unconstitutional because legislators did not have the final say in certifying the winner in those states and appointing presidential candidates.
Boasberg said the case suffers from “numerous shortcomings”, including a lengthy presentation of allegations of fraud, while denying the intent to challenge the same fraud.
“Plaintiffs spend many pages cataloging all conceivable inconsistencies or irregularities during the 2020 vote in the five relevant states, already discouraged or not, of which they are nevertheless described as a form of fraud,” the judge wrote. “The only reason the court can see that the complaint spends more than 70 pages on irrelevant allegations of fraud, of which no single court in any state is convinced to question the outcome of the election, is the political justice system.”
Boasberg also said the timing of the lawsuit, which was filed on Dec. 22, is deeply suspicious.
‘This assertion … could have been filed at any time in recent years (or, in some cases, decades). “It is fantastic that lawyers have to worry about whether states will indeed take the alleged illegal action to certify their election results without the involvement of the state legislature, as the statutes require them to do so,” the judge added. “Waiting as a lawyer beats political fiddle again.”
Kaardal, a former secretary / treasurer of the Minnesota Republican Party, is an attorney at the Minneapolis firm of Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson. When he filed the case in December last year, he said he acted as a special advocate for the Amistad project of the Thomas More Society, a legal organization with a socially conservative, nonprofit base in Chicago.
Kaardal and Justin Flint, a Washington lawyer representing Kaardal in the disciplinary battle, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment on Boasberg’s ruling.
Other attempts are underway to discipline or punish lawyers who file election-related lawsuits that critics see as unfounded.
Earlier this month, the Georgia State Bar filed a 1677-page lawsuit against a well-known state attorney in the state, Lin Wood. The complaint, which is being called a “frivolous case”, is a series of complaints that Wood has filed to challenge the election results in Georgia and elsewhere in 2020. The filing comes after the bar requested Wood to seek treatment for mental health.
Wood insisted that the lawsuit and bizarre allegations he made in public to Chief Justice John Roberts were justified. Wood said he plans to fight the attempt to discipline him.
A Detroit judge is also considering a motion to impose sanctions on Wood and other attorneys there who have filed a lawsuit against Biden’s victory in the state. The City of Detroit appealed to the judge to compel the attorneys who filed the case to pay the legal costs of the opposing parties and refer them for possible disbaring.