A federal judge on Monday heard arguments for and against sanctioning lawyers in an election case, including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood. U.S. District Judge Linda Parker, an Obama nominee, was asked to sanction lawyers in King et al v. Whitmer et al, with defendants charging that plaintiffs’ attorneys failed to dismiss their case when it became moot and that counsel should have known that the claims were frivolous but pursued them nonetheless. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, both Democrats, are the defendants in the case, in which plaintiffs alleged “massive election fraud” and “multiple violations” of state and federal law in the 2020 election. In a contentious six-hour hearing, the judge and lawyers continually cut each other off and protested loudly about whether the attorneys should be sanctioned. Parker read portions from affidavits filed in the case by experts like Russell Ramsland Jr., whose …