Group files complaint with California bar association against John Eastman, TFG's coup attorney

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This asshole needs to be disbarred

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A bipartisan group of former officials and legal heavyweights, including two former federal judges, asked the California bar association Monday to investigate the conduct of John Eastman, the adviser to then-President Donald Trump who mapped out a legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election results.

The complaint, also signed by two former justices of the California Supreme Court, cites Eastman’s work in election challenges rejected by the Supreme Court and his speech at a Jan. 6 rally in Washington before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. But the 24-page memo centers on Eastman’s alleged role in pressing Vice President Mike Pence not to count electoral votes on Jan. 6 and certify President Biden as the winner.

“The available evidence supports a strong case that the State Bar should investigate whether, in the course of representing Mr. Trump, Mr. Eastman violated his ethical obligations as an attorney by filing frivolous claims, making false statements and engaging in deceptive conduct,” the letter said. “There is also a strong basis to investigate whether Mr. Eastman assisted in unlawful actions by his client, Mr. Trump,” to overturn the results of a legitimate election.

The complaint was written on behalf of the States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan organization promoting election integrity co-chaired by former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican, and Norman Eisen, who served in the Obama White House and worked with House Democrats during the first Trump impeachment......

“Evidence indicates that Mr. Trump and Mr. Eastman initially sought to use the memoranda to force Mr. Pence to set aside ballots,” the complaint says. “If Mr. Eastman ever abandoned that argument, it was only because it had become clear that Mr. Pence would not yield on that issue. Mr. Eastman’s own account implicitly confirms that view, stating that the President’s demand was narrowed to delaying the count only ‘after all was said and done.’?”.....

“Mr. Eastman’s memoranda sought to justify a brazen power play by Mr. Trump that aimed to set aside the results of an election that had been repeatedly and authoritatively determined to be free and lawful, and to potentially install the loser of that election as a winner, based on nothing more than a false narrative that Mr. Trump had originally authored,” the complaints says.

Eastman may have been the asshole who wrote Ken Paxton's SCOTUS lawsuit which would be another ground for disbarment. Paxton is being investigated by the Texas Bar and may be disbarred for that piece of crap lawsuit

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. Thanks for posting. Had no idea he is at Chapman U.

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The oil spill is going to upset a lot of OC beach front property owners/Trumpers.

Divine intervention?

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2. I think that he was asked to leave

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. he found a way to save face.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/01/13/john-eastman-retires-from-chapman-university/?sh=576cc41965e7

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3. Opinion: Lawyers at last look ready to step up and defend the rule of law

A high power group of lawyers are going after Eastman's law license

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In California, a group of superstar lawyers, ex-judges and former governors have sent a letter and complaint to the State Bar concerning lawyer John Eastman’s two memos setting forth a plan to overthrow the election, as well as his participation in the rally that ignited the attack on the Capitol. “We write to request that the State Bar investigate serious evidence of professional misconduct by Professor John C. Eastman in connection with his representation of former president Donald Trump in efforts to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election,” they explain.

They revisit in detail Eastman’s two memos:

Mr. Eastman’s memoranda sought to justify a brazen power play by Mr. Trump that aimed to set aside the results of an election that had been repeatedly and authoritatively determined to be free and lawful, and to potentially install the loser of that election as a winner, based on nothing more than a false narrative that Mr. Trump had originally authored. Not only is there no support in the text of the Constitution for that extraordinary result, but it is also contrary to an unbroken chain of past practice and legislation since the enactment of the 12th Amendment and wholly unsupported by the scholarship Mr. Eastman tried to invoke to bolster his analysis, that of Professor Laurence H. Tribe.

The authors conclude:

Mr. Eastman undertook to provide the legal rationale for this extraordinary attempt to overturn the election in two memoranda, which were intended to influence Mr. Pence. The core claim of those memoranda was that it was a “fact” that the Constitution gave Mr. Pence complete and unfettered authority to prevent the counting of lawful ballots from seven select states or to postpone the count altogether. That claim was based on nothing more than the notion that the legitimacy of the election continued to be “disputed” in some unexplained fashion. That conclusion was thoroughly wrong—and Mr. Eastman knew it or was willfully blind.

The letter says Eastman also “continued this pattern of misconduct by giving the crowd at the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on the National Mall another version of his misleading advice and stating that, by rejecting it, Mr. Pence had proved himself undeserving of his office. Mr. Eastman also made a number of false factual statements at the rally, including that there was a ‘secret folder’ of ballots on voting machines that was used to turn the election against Mr. Trump.”

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4. I remember him posting "birther" crap about Kamala Harris last year

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