Brief Observation of Watching trump's Lawyers Get Shamed (If They Ever COULD Be Shamed) in a Court Of Law

So there was some fun to be had on Monday when the lawyers that had been running around post-elections in late 2020 had to appear before a judge to answer for their shenanigans (via Adam Klasfeld at Law&Crime): 

In the first federal court reckoning since the failure of the so-called “Kraken” litigation, a judge on Monday told pro-Trump lawyers Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and their co-counsel that she was concerned that their legal team allowed dodgy affidavits to be filed.

“The court is concerned that these affidavits were submitted in bad faith,” U.S. District Judge Linda Parker said in a blockbuster remark...

More than half a year ago on Dec. 7, Judge Parker decisively rejected Powell and Wood’s effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Michigan in a scathing, 36-page ruling.

“Plaintiffs ask this court to ignore the orderly statutory scheme established to challenge elections and to ignore the will of millions of voters,” Parker wrote. “This, the Court cannot, and will not, do.”

“The People have spoken,” she added.

Named after a mythical octopus-like creature, the “Kraken” is the name that Powell gave to her quadruple-armed effort to overturn election results in Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. Each bid failed, and every appeal was rejected. Parker convened the hearing on Monday to consider whether every lawyer who participated in legal offensive in her court should face sanctions, up to their referrals for disbarment proceedings...

You kind of need to read all of Klasfeld's article: In the details are various acts of fraud, questionable witnesses (like this "Spyder" who claimed to be Army Intelligence but turned out to be an Army mechanic), and various efforts by Lin Wood to distance himself from any legal liability of the shenanigans he signed up for.

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Which all kind of led up to this quote:

...Systematically questioning what, if any, vetting the “Kraken” legal team performed on a stack of affidavits, Judge Parker tore apart the allegations inside one of those declaration.

“This is really fantastical,” Parker said.

“How could any of you as officers of the court submit this affidavit?” she added...

My observation here is: Why the hell isn't Judge Parker whipping out Ye Olde Hammer of Contempt of Court to toss each of trump's inept and inaccurate lawyers straight into jail cells? Under any measurement of Common Sense, Wood and Powell and the others committed serious unethical acts and perpetuated an ongoing fraud on both the nation and the electoral process. Those lawyers made themselves look like fools - without evidence of fraud, without any legal history to back up their claims - and mocked each courtroom doing so.

I understand what Parker is doing now is reviewing the matter for sanctions, which seem to imply fines and disbarment charges when she makes her ruling. However, she should be able to issue Contempt charges under her own power as Judge, as a means of maintaining control of her courtroom.

Either there's a concern that going this route turns trump and his lawyers into martyrs, or that there's possibly a standard of judicial ethics restraining Parker (or any other judge that has do deal with trump's decades-long attack on the legal system) from going there. 

But from where I'm sitting, EVERYTHING that trump and his legal lackeys have done have been open and blatant acts of contempt towards everything the rule of law should stand for.

Contempt of Court is the FIRST thing those bastards should be held accountable for.