Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis’s Colorado law license suspended due to allegations

Attorney Jenna Ellis speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC, in a November 19, 2020, file photo. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Jenna Ellis, a Colorad native and former attorney to then-President Donald Trump in 2020, will be barred from practicing law in Colorado for at least three years under an agreement approved Tuesday by the Colorado Supreme Court.

Ellis, a Longmont native, had faced the possibility of being completely disbarred after pleading guilty in Georgia in October to a felony related to efforts to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss there. Daysha Young, a prosecutor in the case, said in court that Ellis “aided and abetted” two of Trump’s lawyers when they falsely told Georgia state senators that tens of thousands of illegal votes had been cast in the state.

The Colorado State Bar Association had previously reprimanded Ellis after she admitted to repeatedly making false statements about the 2020 presidential election.

In the agreement, lawyers for Ellis and the State of Colorado acknowledged that “while disbarment is the presumptive punishment for (Ellis’) misconduct, it is significant that her criminal culpability arose from her conduct as an accessory and not as a perpetrator.” This, along with her letter of remorse, might have saved her from being disbarred entirely.

In her letter, Ellis wrote that she had “turned a blind eye to the possibility” that senior Trump campaign lawyers could spread false information as part of a “cynical ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign.”

“By accepting the suspension, I will hopefully encourage others who still believe the election was ‘stolen’ to change their position,” Ellis wrote. “Everything that has come out since then has failed to prove that claim.”