Jenna Ellis, former Trump campaign legal adviser, has been suspended from practicing law in Colorado for three years

Washington — Jenna Ellis, who served as legal counsel to former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, will be barred from practicing law in the state of Colorado for the next three years under an agreement reached with the state Attorney General’s Office.

Under the agreement approved Tuesday by a presiding disciplinary judge of the Colorado Supreme Court, Ellis’ suspension of her law license will take effect July 2. The disciplinary action resulted from Ellis’ indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, for her alleged role in a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. She, Trump and 17 others were initially accused in extensive extortion proceedings filed last August by the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.

Ellis pleaded guilty In October, he was charged with aiding and abetting false statements and writings in violation of Georgia law and sentenced to five years’ probation. The charges related to false statements about the election made by then-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and another Trump campaign attorney before a Georgia Senate subcommittee in December 2020.

Ellis, a native of Colorado, was threatened with a professional ban in his state and was reprimanded in March 2023 due to unsubstantiated claims she made while serving as legal counsel to Trump and his campaign about the integrity of the 2020 election. The former president and his allies had falsely claimed that the election was rigged against him, despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

The agreement between the Colorado State Attorney’s Office and Ellis states that while “disbarment is the likely punishment” for her misconduct, “it is significant that her criminal culpability arose from her conduct as an accessory and not as a perpetrator.”

In a May 22 letter that Ellis wrote as part of the agreement, she said she wanted to express “deep remorse” for her conduct related to the 2020 election and that it was “wrong” to engage in activities that spread unfounded claims that the last presidential election was riddled with voter fraud.

“I admit that I too eagerly believed the ‘facts’ presented in support of the lawsuit, even though they were fabricated and false,” Ellis wrote. “Had I done my duty and investigated those alleged facts before spreading them as truth, I probably wouldn’t be here. I ignored the possibility that senior Trump campaign lawyers were embracing claims they knew or should have known were false. I just went along with it. I was wrong.”

She said millions of Americans had been “misled” by what she called a “cynical” campaign to overturn the 2020 election results.

“For democracy to function and thrive, people must believe that their votes count and that the electoral system is fair. That is what ‘election integrity’ should mean, not what it has become for many: a political statement of ‘loyalty,'” Ellis wrote. “That trust in the integrity of our elections has been damaged. That is the damage.”

She said she “accepts with gratitude” the three-year suspension from practicing law in the state of Colorado and again regretted her involvement in spreading false claims about the election.