‘Political Theater’: Ethics Experts Expect Cruz, Hawley Disbarment Petitions to Fall Flat
Experts say it’s unlikely that a petition seeking disbarment of Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, for allegedly lying about election fraud and inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection would spur bar prosecutors to launch discipline cases.
But one of the seven Yale Law School students who organized the petition, which has garnered nearly 11,000 signatures in five days, said the senators’ words and actions were unprecedented, and it’s important that bar associations take the petition’s claims seriously.
“We think there is plenty of information in the public record that demonstrates they have lied repeatedly to the American public,” said Daniel Ki, a third-year student who helped organize the petition.
