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Atlanta attor­ney L. Lin Wood took to social media Sat­ur­day with a dra­mat­ic plea: “I need the help of We the People.”

 

Wood, famous first as a defama­tion lawyer and now as a pros­e­lyte of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s unfound­ed claims of elec­tion fraud, had just received a near­ly 1,700-page doc­u­ment from the State Bar of Geor­gia that threat­ened to end his 43-year legal career. In it, the Bar’s Dis­ci­pli­nary Board said it had ini­ti­at­ed a griev­ance against Wood over his con­duct in con­nec­tion with his attempts to over­turn the 2020 pres­i­den­tial election.

 

On the inter­net mes­sag­ing ser­vice Telegram, Wood enlist­ed an “Army of Patri­ots” to inves­ti­gate his accusers, to scru­ti­nize their social media posts, their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions, their con­nec­tions and clients — any­thing that would chal­lenge their “com­pe­tence, qual­i­fi­ca­tions or objectivity.”