Those alarmed by the attacks on democracy in the US can breathe a sigh of relief as the rule of law has begun to push back on those attempts — most recently in Colorado, where a federal judge sanctioned two lawyers pushing the Big Lie. | CNNOpinion
Norman Eisen, a former ambassador to the Czech Republic and former President Barack Obama's"ethics czar," was special impeachment counsel to House Judiciary Committee in 2019-2020. Joanna Lydgate is the former chief deputy attorney general for the state of Massachusetts. Eisen is the Chair and Lydgate is CEO of the States United Democracy Center . The opinions expressed here are their own. View more opinion at CNN.
For all those alarmed by the assaults on democracy in the 2020 election cycle and its aftermath, it will come as a great relief that the rule of law is pushing back. Norman EisenJoanna LydgateThe latest example is a federal judge in Colorado who sanctioned two lawyers for"echoing and repeating election-rigging conspiracy theories" and noted that those allegations"are extraordinarily serious, and if accepted as true by large numbers of people, are the stuff of which violent insurrections are made." This decision is important in its own right.
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