When Trump was faced with certain defeat in the 2020 presidential election he lied that there was massive fraud to steal the election from him. His election team since filed several lawsuits alleging that the election was indeed stole from him. Most of these lawsuits were struck down. Now, a magistrate has levied penalties against two attorneys in Colorado who were part of this legal campaign on the side of Trump. This article by Nicholas Riccardi is published by the Associated Press. Here is an except.

A federal magistrate on Wednesday levied penalties against two Colorado attorneys for filing a class-action lawsuit that alleged the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.

The now-dismissed suit relied on baseless conspiracy theories spread by the former president and his supporters. It named elected officials in four swing states, Facebook, the company’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, whose election machines were at the center of some of the most fevered speculation.

Magistrate Judge N. Reid Nureiter ruled that the two attorneys who filed the lawsuit must pay the legal fees of the defendants.

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