‘Kraken’ lawyer weeps in court hearing as she faces sanctions over backing Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ on...

One of the lawyers who sued to throw out Michigan's electoral votes for President Joe Biden was reduced to tears during a hearing on whether she and her colleagues should face professional sanctions for filing affidavits filled with shoddy claims during post-election litigation.

The so-called "Kraken" lawsuit was filed last year by a group of pro-Trump attorneys, including Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and former Department of Housing and Urban Development adviser Julia Haller. It asked a federal district court to decertify Michigan's presidential electors based on a number of since-discredited theories of alleged election fraud in Detroit's central counting centre. It cited affidavits from poll workers and challengers who made allegations that ballots for Mr Biden were counted multiple times, extra Biden ballots were brought in late at night from vans with out-of-state plates, and repeated numerous baseless claims that voting machines made by Dominion Voting Systems somehow switched votes from former President Donald Trump to Mr Biden.