Law Prof Who Spoke at White House Rally Abruptly Retires Amid Calls for His Firing

[babylonsister]

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2021/01/14/law-prof-who-spoke-at-white-house-rally-abruptly-retires-amid-calls-for-his-firing/


Law Prof Who Spoke at White House Rally Abruptly Retires Amid Calls for His Firing
John Eastman reached an agreement to immediately retire from Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law.
By Karen Sloan | January 14, 2021 at 11:01 AM


Chapman University law professor John Eastman, who appeared at the “Save America” rally that preceded last week’s Capitol Hill riot and who assisted in filing several lawsuits challenging the presidential election results, has left the law school amid criticism of his role in stoking the violent attack.

University officials announced late Wednesday that Eastman had retired effective immediately, the result of discussions with university leaders over the past week. He had been on the faculty since 1999.

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Eastman, a former clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stepped down as Chapman law dean in 2010 to pursue an unsuccessful run for California attorney general but remained on the law school faculty. In addition to that position at the law school, he is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, the litigation arm of the conservative think tank The Claremont Institute.

Eastman is among a small cohort of legal academics who have come under scrutiny for their alignment with Trump. Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has become a frequent defender of the outgoing president on social media and cable news shows. Meanwhile, Regent University law dean Mark Martin, the former chief judge of the North Carolina Supreme Court, reportedly made the case to Trump that Vice President Mike Pence had the power to overturn the Electoral College vote count, an argument Pence rejected.

[still_one]

1. the old "you're not going to fire me, I quit". I wish their reject in the WH would do that

[DownriverDem]

9. Protecting his

retirement benefits, I bet.

[still_one]

12. whether he needs it or not, anything he can grift he will try and do it. Hopefully that won't

happen

[NJCher]

2. It would be easy

To get the names of lawyers who did the 60-odd suits that facilitated this image that trump had a cause. They should be published on the internet and complaints should be made if they have associations with public entities or universities.

[RobertDevereaux]

3. Same asshole is currently a visiting prof at CU Boulder.

Boulderites are trying to get him fired.

https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/01/11/cu-boulder-visiting-professor-defends-election-fraud-claims-while-criticism-mounts/

[RobertDevereaux]

14. Yesterday's Denver Post...

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/01/13/john-eastman-cu-boulder-classes-canceled/

"Citing low enrollment, the University of Colorado Boulder this week canceled the spring courses that were to have been taught by visiting conservative [sic] scholar John Eastman, who drew calls for his dismissal after speaking at the Trump rally that preceded the storming of the U.S. Capitol."

[Escurumbele]

4. People like him remind me of what Neal Katyal said about Josh Hawley "Yes, he may be smart, but

intelligence and good judgement don't always go together.", the same applies for this professor. Good they fired him, people like that should not be teaching, imagine the stuff he tells his students.

[obamanut2012]

5. An acquaintance hraduated from Chapman

And she is furious they refused to fire OR censure him in any way. She gives them $1,000 a year for a scholarship fund, and called to say that was stopping ASAP. I take it she wasn't the only one who called, because he sudden;y resigned.

[hurple]

6. Is this the same John Eastman

Who represents, or used to represent, Paul McCartney?

[karynnj]

13. No

This clown was born in Nebraska - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Eastman

Linda Eastman's family was from New York state and their family named had been changed from Epstein - they were Jewish.

[PatSeg]

7. A law professor?

Astounding. They aren't all uneducated, beer-swilling gun toting rubes.

[llashram]

8. that's a 20 year

career down the drain. Yet he has his 'retirement parachute' I bet.

[lagomorph777]

10. Cancel his pension.

Surely they have a morality/criminality clause in his contract?

[C Moon]

11. My guess is that he's a nazi racist

[Crunchy Frog]

16. He's the one that tried to claim that Kamala Harris wasn't really a citizen. Birther scum.