Ellis agreed to a stipulated disciplinary order with Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel
COLORADO SUN
Jenna Ellis, the former attorney for Donald Trump, has been suspended from practicing law in Colorado for three years following her guilty plea to a felony charge in Georgia for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the state.
The disciplinary action, approved on Tuesday by a judge, comes after Ellis agreed to a stipulated order with Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. To reinstate her law license after the suspension, Ellis will need to file a petition.
Colorado law says every person convicted of a felony “shall be disqualified from … practicing as an attorney in any courts of this state during the actual time of confinement or commitment to imprisonment or release from actual confinement on conditions of probation.”
“While disbarment is the presumptive sanction for (Ellis’) misconduct, it is significant that her criminal culpability was due to her conduct as an accessory, not as a principle,” the stipulation says. “She has also expressed remorse and has recognized the harm caused by her misconduct and has taken significant, concrete steps to mitigate the harm her misconduct has caused.”
In a letter earlier this month to to the Colorado Supreme Court, Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel and the judge presiding over her disciplinary case, Ellis expressed regret.
“In the beginning of my involvement I genuinely believed that the election challenges were made in good faith — basically a repeat of a Bush v. Gore situation, not an effort to undermine the public faith in the integrity of elections,” she wrote. “But I admit that I was overly zealous in believing the ‘facts’ being peddled to support the challenge, which were manufactured and false. Had I done my duty in investigating these alleged facts before promoting them as the truth, I do not believe I would be here. I turned a blind eye to the possibility that senior lawyers for the Trump campaign were embracing claims they knew or should have known were false. I just went along with it. I was wrong.”
She added: “I will hopefully encourage others who may still believe that the
