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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 09:34 PM Sep 2023

Will the real John Eastman please stand up?

Sept. 7, 2023, 7:44 PM
Joyce E. Cutler

... he didn’t really establish a brand for himself until Proposition 8, the gay-marriage ban, came around in 2008 ...

... in 2010, Eastman ran for California Attorney General ...

... Spillane oversaw Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley’s 2010 bid for Attorney General. Cooley defeated Eastman by nearly 13 percentage points in the Republican primary for the privilege of facing Harris in the general election ...

... “It was clear he was a small-time, petty, unethical fraud,” Spillane said of Eastman ...

https://capitolweekly.net/will-the-real-john-eastman-please-stand-up/

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Will the real John Eastman please stand up? (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2023 OP
This highly esteemed Doctor John Eastman ? magicarpet Sep 2023 #1

magicarpet

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1. This highly esteemed Doctor John Eastman ?
Thu Sep 7, 2023, 09:55 PM
Sep 2023

The Federalist Society member in good standing who tried to over throw American Democracy to help trDump's aspirations for a Coup d'etat.


Dr. John C. Eastman
Topics: Free Speech & Election Law • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Religious Liberties • Civil Rights

Dr. John Eastman is the former Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1999, specializing in Constitutional Law, Legal History, and Property. He is a founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute that he founded in 1999. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate School and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, and a B.A. in Politics and Economics from the University of Dallas. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage.

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/john-eastman

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