John Eastman isn't going away quietly

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John Eastman -- author of the legal memo asserting Pence's right to delay election results -- has started a new firm called the Constitutional Counsel Group and plans to be the "tip of the spear" on litigation over constitutional powers

Opinion | John Eastman isn’t going away quietly
With Donald Trump out of office, it's tempting to write off John Eastman. But if history is any guide, the conservative lawyer behind the Jan. 6 memo won't go away quietly.
washingtonpost.com
11:01 AM · Oct 18, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/john-eastman-plans-2020-election/

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It was a mistake to write off Eastman then. And tempting as it is to dismiss him as a threat neutralized with Trump’s removal from office, it would be an even bigger error to write him off now.

Because Eastman, 61, has plans. Ever since Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, “Peril,” surfaced his election memorandum, his legal reasoning has been widely criticized. But it isn’t stopping him from using the law to advance his agenda. Along with his former Chapman University law-school colleague Anthony Caso, Eastman has founded a new firm in Orange County called the Constitutional Counsel Group. (Eastman and the Chapman University law school, where he was once dean, parted ways after Jan. 6.)

Eastman says he expects to be the “tip of the spear” on litigation over the separation of powers, using lawsuits to challenge executive-branch overreach — such as Occupational Safety and Health Administration directives related to covid-19. The executive branch, his theory goes, is acting in areas that it can’t, absent laws passed by Congress. It’s an interesting take from the guy who suggested the vice president had authority to block Congress from certifying official state vote tallies.

Eastman is also employing his constitutional-law background to sway the high court, filing amicus curiae briefs on issues near and dear to him. In the Supreme Court term that opened last week, Eastman and Caso have filed briefs on behalf of the Claremont Institute, where both men staff the conservative think tank’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. Their work includes interventions in the term’s two most high-profile cases, where the men side with gun owners attacking New York’s strict gun-control law and with the state of Mississippi in trying to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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1. Always with the battle analogies

I can't help wondering how Mr. Eastman would react to a shot fired in anger at close range? Faint? Wet himself? Crap his pants? All three? But he's gonna be the "tip of the spear" y'all.

[Me.]

2. Yet Another Big Talker

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3. This guy needs a subpoena, then an indictment. Nt

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4. For starters

he needs to lose his law license and then be arrested. These people who were behind the overthrow of our government should be under FBI investigation, instead they are out on a soap box continuing the insurrection.