The NYT is promoting a very unethical and evil lawyer in a very unprofessional manner. The NYT is not a real news organization and once again the NYT is trying to help TFG
More than a week after we learned about John Eastman's legal memo advising then-President Trump on how he could overturn Joe Biden's victory, The New York Times has published a story about Eastman. He's described as a "fringe" figure.
John Eastman’s path from little-known academic to one of the most influential voices in Donald J. Trump’s ear in the final days of his presidency began in mid-2019 on Mr. Trump’s favorite platform: television.
Mr. Trump, who had never met Mr. Eastman, saw him on the Fox News talk show of the far-right commentator Mark Levin railing against the Russia investigation. Within two months, Mr. Eastman was sitting in the Oval Office for an hourlong meeting.
Soon, Mr. Eastman was meeting face to face at Mr. Trump’s urging with the attorney general, William P. Barr, and telling him how Mr. Trump could unilaterally impose limits on birthright citizenship.
Then, after the November election, Mr. Eastman wrote the memo for which he is now best known, laying out steps that Vice President Mike Pence could take to keep Mr. Trump in power...
Mr. Eastman’s rise within Mr. Trump’s inner circle in the chaotic final weeks of his administration ... underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump not only relied on, but encouraged, a crew of players from the fringes of politics.
......He was also chairman of the board of the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most prominent groups opposed to same-sex marriage before it was legalized nationwide. He chaired the Federalist Society’s Federalism and Separation of Powers Practice Group. He's a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and the founding director of Claremont's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.
And if he was "little known" outside right-wing legal circles, he was nevertheless known to The New York Times itself. The opinion section of the Times published Eastman at least three times.
The current story depicts Eastman in the Oval Office telling Attorney General Barr "how Mr. Trump could unilaterally impose limits on birthright citizenship." I assume Eastman was repeating what he wrote in a "Room for Debate" piece for the Times titled "Birthright Citizenship Is Not Actually in the Constitution."
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