One of former president Donald Trump’s personal attorneys during his campaign’s “stop the steal” scam in the months after the 2020 election has been publicly censured by the Colorado state supreme court after admitting that she engaged in “conduct involving fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”

Jenna Ellis agreed to the public sanction in a stipulated settlement with the Office of Attorney Regulation in Colorado, where she is licensed to practice law. Ellis acknowledged that, although not the attorney of record in any of the lawsuits challenging the election results, she was a senior legal adviser to the then-president. She further admitted making the following misrepresentations on Twitter and various cable news programs:

On November 13, 2020, Respondent [Jenna Ellis] claimed that “Hillary Clinton still has not conceded the 2016 election.”

On November 20, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business and stated: “We have affidavits from witnesses, we have voter intimidation, we have the ballots that were manipulated, we have all kinds of statistics that show that this was a coordinated effort in all of these states to transfer votes either from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret . . .”

On November 20, 2020, Respondent appeared on Spicer & Co. and stated, “with all those states [Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia] combined we know that the election was stolen from President Trump and we can prove that.”

On November 21, 2020, Respondent stated on Twitter under her handle @JennaEllisEsq., “ . . . SECOND, we will present testimonial and other evidence IN COURT to show how this election was STOLEN!”

On November 23, 2020, Respondent appeared on The Ari Melber Show on MSNBC and stated, “The election was stolen and Trump won by a landslide.”

On November 30, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business and stated, “President Trump is right that there was widespread fraud in this election, we have at least six states that were corrupted, if not more, through their voting systems. . . We know that President Trump won in a landslide.” She also stated, “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent it’s wrong, and we understand than when we subtract all the illegal ballots, you can see that President Trump actually won in a landslide.”

On December 3, 2020, Respondent appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business and stated, “The outcome of this election is actually fraudulent it’s wrong, and we understand than when we subtract all the illegal ballots, you can see that President Trump actually won in a landslide.”

On December 5, 2020, Respondent appeared on Justice with Judge Jeanine on Fox News and stated, “We have over 500,000 votes [in Arizona] that were cast illegally . . .”

On December 15, 2020, Respondent appeared on Greg Kelly Reports on Newsmax and stated, “The proper and true victor, which is Donald Trump . . .”

On December 22, 2020, Respondent stated on Twitter, through her handle @JennaEllisEsq, “I spent an hour with @DanCaplis for an in-depth discussion about President @realDonaldTrump’s fight for election integrity, the overwhelming evidence proving this was stolen, and why fact-finding and truth—not politics—matters!”

On behalf of the state supreme court, Presiding Disciplinary Judge Byron M. Large concluded that public censure was appropriate because it is applicable, under American Bar Association standards, “when a lawyer knowingly engages in any non-criminal conduct that involves dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation and that adversely reflects on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law.”

It is not clear what bearing Ellis’s admissions could have on the ongoing disciplinary proceedings involving other lawyers implicated in the Trump campaign’s postelection efforts to undo the 2020 election result, including Rudy Giuliani (with whom Ellis worked closely), John Eastman, and former Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark.