Attorney Powell and team ordered to pay $175K in Michigan election case

LANSING, Mich. — Attorney Sidney Powell and other lawyers who unsuccessfully sought to overturn Michigan’s 2020 election will have to pay $175,250 in legal fees under a court order issued Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Linda Parker of Michigan’s Eastern District said the penalty was “an appropriate sanction” and “is an amount the court finds needed to deter plaintiffs’ counsel and others from engaging in similar misconduct in the future.”

“Plaintiffs’ attorneys, many of whom seek donations from the public to fund lawsuits like this one ... have the ability to pay this sanction,” Parker wrote.

The decision awards $153,285.62 to the city of Detroit, the state’s largest city and a Democratic stronghold that became a hotbed for false and unproven claims about voter fraud, and $21,964.75 to the state of Michigan.