Jenna Ellis’s law license was suspended after she pleaded guilty in Georgia election interference case

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Jenna Ellis, who supported Donald Trump after the 2020 election and pleaded guilty last year in Georgia’s voter fraud case, has been disbarred in Colorado.

The suspension begins July 2, according to a signed order from a Colorado judge. Ellis has been licensed to practice law in Colorado for more than a decade, court records show.

Ellis will be barred from practicing law in this state for three years. Other states that recognize her bar license will likely deny her licensure as well.

This latest action is another case of other Trump associates such as Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman also losing their law licenses. Colorado disciplinary authorities approved the suspension based on Ellis’ confessions in the Georgia case, where others such as Eastman, Giuliani and Trump himself are still fighting the charges.

Ellis pleaded guilty last year to aiding and abetting false testimony and will cooperate with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office. She was sentenced to five years’ probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.

In tears, she made a statement to the judge pleading guilty and denying her involvement in Trump’s unprecedented attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

“If I had known then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on that experience with deep regret,” Ellis said.

Before her guilty plea in Georgia, the same disciplinary judge who suspended her in Colorado signed a public reprimand against Ellis for ten false statements she made after the 2020 election. For example, she insisted in media appearances that Trump had “won overwhelmingly.”

Last week, Ellis wrote a fulsome letter to the Colorado Supreme Court’s disciplinary office apologizing for her role in spreading Trump’s election lies, according to released documents related to her disciplinary action as an attorney.

This letter from Ellis goes even further than the apology she gave in court in Georgia when she pleaded guilty, focusing more on her own remorse and not describing in as much detail how she believes Trump’s lies infiltrated his campaign and the country after the 2020 election.

“I want to tell the truth. I want to express my deep remorse and acknowledge the harm my wrongdoing has caused,” Ellis wrote.

In the two-page letter, Ellis said she initially believed that Trump’s team’s election challenges were being made “in good faith,” but was overzealous and The lies of their colleagues were taken at face value, reinforcing the public’s belief in false claims about the election.

“If I had known what I know now, I would not have gotten involved in this,” she wrote.

Ellis also said she hoped her public repudiation of Trump’s stance after the 2020 election would encourage others who still deny the election results to change their minds.

“I will gratefully accept a three-year suspension from the practice of law as a consequence for my actions…I will hopefully encourage others who still believe the election was ‘stolen’ to change their minds. Everything that has come out since then has failed to prove that claim,” Ellis wrote.

Ellis was also indicted in Arizona last month on charges that she, along with a number of fraudulent electors and several other people associated with Trump’s campaign, conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. She is scheduled to appear in court next month.