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- Donald Trump’s attorney, Lin Wood, was requested by the State Bar of Georgia to undergo a mental health evaluation
- The evaluation is required for Wood to maintain his attorney license according to the attorney licensing body.
- This comes weeks after Woods was banned from Twitter for continually embracing conspiracy theories.
A lawyer licensing body said Friday it asked L. Lin Wood, a lawyer who played a key role in Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse his electoral defeat, to undergo a mental health evaluation.
Wood said on the Telegram app Thursday that the State Bar of Georgia had told him that he had to undergo the evaluation to maintain his attorney license.
“My mind is healthy. I have not broken any rules. I asked what I had done wrong. They only told me that it was my comments on social media. My speech,” he wrote.
Wood did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
State Bar of Georgia COO Sarah Coole confirmed that Wood had been asked to undergo a mental health evaluation, but declined to comment further.
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The development comes weeks after Wood, an Atlanta-based libel litigator, was kicked out of Twitter, where he regularly embraced conspiracy theories.
A Delaware state judge earlier this month prevented Wood from representing Trump’s former adviser Carter Page, calling the claims Wood made on Twitter about the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, “too disgusting and outrageous. to repeat them. “
Wood was also fired in January by a Kentucky teenager who sued the media for his portrayal of his viral confrontation with a Native American activist in Washington in 2019.
It’s unusual but legal for a state bar association to ask an attorney to undergo such an evaluation, said Brian Faughnan, a Tennessee attorney who advises attorneys on ethics issues. Such requests are kept confidential, but in this case Wood “waived” that right to confidentiality by posting them on social media, he said.
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