One Blistering Line
Tori Otten
March 28, 2024/1:54 p.m. ET
... State Bar Court of California Judge Yvette Roland recommended Wednesday that Eastmans law license be put on involuntary inactive status starting three days after her ruling ...
... Roland said ... ... Eastmans wrongdoing constitutes exceptionally serious ethical violations warranting severe professional discipline.
... one other line in particular stood out ... The scale and egregiousness of Eastmans unethical actions far surpasses the misconduct at issue in Segretti.
Donald Segretti, of course, was the lawyer who worked on Richard Nixons reelection campaign and who coined the term ratfucking. Segretti first came up with ratfucking when he was at the University of Southern California, where he and his friends would sabotage campus elections, including by stuffing ballot boxes, planting spies on opponents teams, and spreading disinformation.
... Segretti had applied those same strategies to Nixons campaign ...
https://newrepublic.com/post/180225/trump-2020-election-lawyer-john-eastman-disbarred