That judge didnt, but Im sure the bar did.

That headline is kind of misleading... They filed a motion for show cause. Show cause is when one or more of the parties has to justify, explain, or prove something to the court. Basically, if you get show caused, it's like getting called to the principal's office. No one likes it, and you have to go before the judge and explain yourself. And sanctions is something you always ask for in every motion for the pain of having to file a motion because opposing counsel is being dickweeds. Usually the sanctions are attorney fees for time wasted and costs for that period of the time being wasted + the motion filing fee.

If you look at the motion, the request for sanctions is just a line. It's the conclusion to the motion. "Plaintiffs defer to the Court as to what sanction is appropriate, and respectfully ask for an order to show cause for the above-described conduct of Secretary Boockvar’s counsel." So, the judge denied motion, but agreed in substance that defense counsel's behavior was poor:

The contents of the voicemail have not been made public. Brann said the voicemail wasn’t threatening, but it could be described as a “harassing call,” according to the Reuters Legal story. “Someone needs to have a chat” with the associate, he said.

Kerns had said the voicemail lasted a minute, and it “falls afoul of standards of professional conduct” by any measure.

To be honest, that's better than sanctions. They've been embarrassed to the court and to the judge that they will presumably will have to appear before again. To that end, I think the motion achieved it's intended effect, in that it put counsel for the SoS on blast and they even withdrew from the case. But that's just my $.02! Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

SPEZ: If you look at the rest of the docket, this motion is a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket compared to all the motions for leave and motions to dismiss floating around.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18618673/donald-j-trump-for-president-inc-v-boockvar/

SPEZ2: ducking autocorrect.

Which makes you wonder what the hell did the firm find out that caused them to basically recuse themselves. 👀🤔

Of course not

He doesn't want the attention, there are many people out there that want to contribute to a of movement, but dont want the media to play association games with their name which can cause headaches that are not worth it. I totally understand that. If I'm a father or businessowner, and depending what industries I'm in, the headache from the fake news media may not be worth it, even "you shouldn't care what a lying fake news media says."

I also totally understand the hate on Cernovich, he annoys the shit outta me too with his stupid word games, but he in general does support MAGA people that are true MAGA, and not half MAGA/half GOP. My personality type is more MAGA till the day I die, it's my team or nothing -- but people like Cernovich are more open arms trying to mediate between opposing sides, which is why he will at times extend an olive branch to liberals -- Trump has done this same thing extending an olive branch to RINOs and ex-Obama people that eventually stabbed him in the back. Cernovich and Trump are not as crude and heartless as I, they want to believe that people will be fair. He would be more openly MAGA if Trump didn't hire so many snakes. While I'm more MAGA than guys like Cernovich openly, I hate that Trump makes so many shit hires throughout his presidency (Sessions, Barr, Wray, Haspel, McMaster, Bolton, Ex-Obamas, Ex-Rubios, etc). It's caused MAGA so many headaches that are just not worth the "don't worry Trump is playing 65D chess" memes.

I don't want to stick up for him too much, because there's a lot that pisses me off about him to, as I said earlier, extending an olive branch to liberals and things like that. Maybe his way is better than mine, I don't know.