Jenna Ellis, a former Trump campaign lawyer who was involved in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, has been barred from practicing law in Colorado for three years following her guilty plea in the Georgia election interference case.
Ellis’ law license will be suspended for three years in the state starting July 2, according to a signed order from a state judge in Colorado.
Last year, Ellis pleaded guilty to one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements stemming from the election lies she and other members of Trump’s legal team peddled to Georgia lawmakers after the election.
She was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $5,000 in restitution.
The Colorado attorney discipline authorities approved the suspension Tuesday because of Ellis’ admissions in the Georgia case.
In a letter submitted to the Colorado Supreme Court disciplinary authorities to avoid getting disbarred, Ellis wrote that she “is choosing to take responsibility for my actions and my association with the harm caused to the nation by the post-election activities of 2020 on behalf of then-President Donald Trump.”
Ellis wrote that in the beginning she “genuinely believed that the election challenges were made in good faith,” but was “overzealous in believing the facts being peddled” by her colleagues “which were manufactured and false.”
“Had I known what I know now, I would not have been involved,” she wrote.
Ellis was publicly censured in March 2023 for 10 misrepresentations she made about the election on social media and during TV appearances in 2020. She also faces criminal charges in Arizona for conspiring to overturn the results of the election in the state.
