John Eastman facing disbarment hearing

[brooklynite]

John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, is about to go on trial — but not in a criminal court.

Rather, the attorney is fighting to save his California bar license from authorities who say he repeatedly breached professional ethics — and possibly the law — in his bid to keep a defeated Trump in power. And those proceedings, while not as prominent as the Jan. 6 select committee or as potentially punitive as a criminal prosecution, are slated to elicit some of the most revealing and comprehensive testimony from figures who aided Trump’s effort to derail the transfer of power.

That’s because Eastman and the California State Bar have amassed witness lists that include figures who have rarely spoken publicly about Jan. 6 but may hold valuable evidence — including Eastman himself, who is listed as a potential witness by the state bar’s trial counsel and by his own defense team. Their lists also include other high-profile figures, like former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who are slated to testify as experts about constitutional law or election administration.
Eastman’s list features Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who spoke with Trump multiple times on Jan. 6 and who helmed legal efforts to unravel the election results in multiple states; Peter Navarro, the former Trump trade adviser who authored discredited reports on election integrity during the final weeks of 2020; Kurt Hilbert, a lawyer who worked on Trump’s post-election litigation in Georgia; Linda Kerns, a lawyer who worked on Trump’s post-election lawsuit in Pennsylvania; former Georgia State Sen. William Ligon; Doug Logan, the CEO of far-right election “audit” firm Cyber Ninjas; and Russell Ramsland, who was involved with a review of voting machines in Antrim County, Michigan, that became the source of pro-Trump conspiracy theories.

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Meanwhile, the state bar plans to call its own notable list of witnesses, beginning with Greg Jacob, who on Jan. 6 was counsel to then-Vice President Mike Pence. Jacob tangled with Eastman in the days before Jan. 6 over Eastman’s claim that Pence could single-handedly prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/11/john-eastman-disbarment-trial-trump-00101407

[Joinfortmill]

1. Good riddance to him

[BOSSHOG]

2. What's the rush?

Repeatedly breached professional ethics. Easily proven. Done deal.

I’d rather seen him tried for treason, given a fair trial, found guilty and hanged for being a treasonous bastard. If he hangs until he dies, I say scratch the disbarment proceedings, let him die as a lawyer as a tribute to Shakespeare.

[democratsruletheday]

3. well done BOSSHOG...

although SOME would say 'hangin's too good for him'

[BOSSHOG]

4. The unfounded, unnecessary misery

Conservatives bring to our country is wearing thin. I suggest a heavy dose of introspection for those conservatives who know what that means.

[AZ8theist]

11. I would HAPPILY pull that lever for the trap door - nt

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

19. Except that it's not treason

It wasn't aiding and abetting enemies during an actual war.

Sedition, yeah, a case exists for that charge.

Treason, no.

[republianmushroom]

5. he should lose it IMO

[Hekate]

6. ETTD. Honor gone, reputation likewise, livelihood, professional licenses -- gone, all gone.

Friends? Pfft. Wife?

[Demobrat]

10. And for what.

An orange buffoon who would claim not to know him in a heartbeat.
John Eastman? Was he one of the pool boys?

[AZ8theist]

12. Coffee boy..never met him.....

[ancianita]

7. Can't think of a better lawyer to disbar, former head of the law school at Chapman College, in

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Orange County, CA, the reddest county in the state. He worked so hard for a coup in search of a legal theory, that he's earned all the outcaste status he gets.

Pleaded the 5th 146 times to the Jan 6 Committee.

[Hortensis]

14. :) 156 times. No doubt the state bar will have that deposition too.

[ancianita]

15. Okay, cool. No biggie.

My googled source had a different number.

[Hortensis]

17. Sorry. He is famous for all the wrong things and on the skids.

Shame it took so long and an attempted coup d'etat to do it.

[Ford_Prefect]

8. With no license and no professional reputation he'll have to go into either politics or advertising.

[flying_wahini]

13. Or a GOP head and/or lobbyist.

[Hortensis]

18. One guess which: He's run a couple times for office

but lost in spite of being a skilled liar and dirty trickster. Maybe being disbarred will be the credential he needs.

[milestogo]

16. Bummer for him.