One legal watchdog group is going after lawyers who pushed former President Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims through U.S. courts and is seeking to sanction them. One such lawyer who’s in the group’s crosshairs is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and the group is requesting that the Texas state bar suspend or revoke his license to practice law thanks to his participating in “frivolous” election lawsuits in Texas and Pennsylvania, The Independent reports.

The group is known as The 65 Project and it sent a complaint on Wednesday to the Texas state bar requesting an investigation into Cruz’s work representing Trump and Pennsylvania Republicans in the weeks that followed Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in 2020’s presidential election.

In the complaint, the group is alleging Cruz’s actions involved him abetting criminal conduct and upholding and amplifying “claims not backed by law” and “claims not backed by evidence (but instead, speculation, conjecture, and unwarranted suspicion)” and the group claims this “violated numerous Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct.”

Cruz, along with seven other GOP senators who voted against certifying Biden’s electoral college victory on January 6, 2021, which is, of course, the infamous day when a surly mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in the hopes of preventing Biden’s certification as president by Congress.

And Cruz was a cog in this machine, suggesting a proposal for a “commission” to examine the countless claims of fraud — even though every single one of them was found to be false — that Trump and his allies pushed in the hopes that he might serve a second term even though American voters were more than clear that they were dead set against this.

The 65 Project contains some venerable members — including a former chairman of the Texas State Bar Grievance Committee and a former chairman of the Texas Center of Legal Ethics and Professionalism board of trustees, and the group says Cruz’s “leading role” in attempting to overturn the 2020 was “manifestly different” from other senators. The group maintains this is because “he chose to take on the role of lawyer” when he represented Pennsylvania Republicans in Kelly v. Pennsylvania and Texas Republicans in Texas v. Pennsylvania. These cases were an attempt to invalidate electoral votes from swing states won by Biden.

And Cruz was quite vocal in his involvement in the former case on December 7, 2020, after Pennsyvlania Republicans said they planned to appeal a decision that had rejected their claims to the U.S. Supreme Court. A day or so later, Trump said he had asked Cruz to represent him by intervening in the lawsuit that had been brought by the state of Texas and Cruz agreed to do so.

“In doing so, Mr. Cruz moved beyond his position as a United States Senator and sought to use more than his Twitter account and media appearances to support Mr. Trump’s anti-democratic mission. Mr. Cruz added the value of his law license to the effort,” the group maintained.

And of course, Trump and his cronies hoped the decidedly conservative Supreme Court, which included 3 of his own appointees — would step in to keep Biden out of office. But fortunately, in this case, at least, the court rejected both cases in less than three days.

I can just imagine an angry Trump standing there glaring, with a vein bulging in his neck, can’t you?

The 65 Project also alleges that Cruz’s legal work in both cases — accompanied by public statements that he made while engaged as an attorney by Trump as he tried to overturn the election — violate rules of professional conduct for Texas-licensed attorneys. These rules state that a lawyer shall not “bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein unless the lawyer reasonably believes there is a basis for doing so that is not frivolous” or “shall not knowingly make a false statement of material fact or law to a third person.”

“The claims and requests made by Pennsylvania Republicans in Kelly v. Pennsylvania and by Mr. Trump in Texas were frivolous, which is why the United States Supreme Court denied the motions in short orders,” the group members say.

So it’s good that Trump seems to be dragging Cruz down with him. I can’t think of two men who are more deserving of this than Trump or Cruz.