The U.S. Supreme Court rejects an appeal by lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and five others that challenged the sanctions issued by a district judge over their claims that the 2020 election Michigan had been rigged against Trump.
Powell and Wood are also expected to testify in the Georgia election interference case against Trump and 14 co-defendants.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court let stand lower court sanctions against Powell, Wood and five others, the USA Today reported.
The high court did not offer any comment on its decision, which means Powell, Wood and the other defendants must pay a total of $132,693.75 to the city of Detroit and another $19,639.75 in legal fees to the state of Michigan.
In their alleged effort to overturn the 2020 election results in Michigan, Powell, Wood and their co-defendants made wild claims in a lawsuit brought in the state alleging that Dominion voting machines were involved in fraud.
A district court judge ruled that the lawyers’ court challenges represented a “historic and profound abuse of the judicial process.”
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals later upheld the bulk of the district court judge’s ruling, calling the fraud claims “simply baseless.”
In their appeal to the Supreme Court, the defendants continued to argue that they were simply pursuing “legitimate election challenges.”
Powell has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges stemming from her alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia and has agreed to testify against Trump and 14 others still charged there.
Dominion is suing Powell for $1.3 billion over her claims that the company rigged the election against Trump.
Wood has been subpoenaed to testify in the Georgia case.
