California Bar Slaps Trump Lawyer John Eastman with 11 Disciplinary Charges for 'False' Election Fra

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Law & Crime

The California bar slapped former President Donald Trump’s attorney John Eastman with nearly a dozen disciplinary charges for “false and misleading statements” alleging fraud in the 2020 election.

The State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona intends to seek Eastman’s disbarment for alleged violations of Business and Professions Code section 6106, which punishes making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of “moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption.”

“There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power,” Cardona said in a statement. “For California attorneys, adherence to the U.S. and California Constitutions is their highest legal duty. The Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land — an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy — for which he must be held accountable.”

Eastman is the author of the so-called “coup memo,” a six-point plan to overturn the election results.

“The 11 charges arise from allegations that Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states,” the bar wrote in a press release.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/california-bar-slaps-trump-lawyer-john-eastman-with-11-disciplinary-charges-for-false-election-fraud-statements/

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[ancianita]

1. Great! That guy was the head of the law school at RW Chapman University in Tustin, Orange County.

Like most right wingers, his thinking was half-assed, since as an alleged constitutional lawyer he acted like the 12th Amendment didn't mean what it says. Even after he clerked for J. Michael Luttig who included him as part of the "clear and present danger" in his testimony at the Jan 6 Committee hearing on June 16 2022. Gotta say, though, that the CA Bar sure took its sweet time to act on this guy.

Eastman served as the director of Congressional and public affairs at the United States Commission on Civil Rights.[24] He was also the unsuccessful 1990 Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives in California's 34th congressional district.[25]

Following law school, he clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas at the Supreme Court of the United States; he then was an attorney with the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, specializing in civil and constitutional litigation. He later joined Chapman to teach constitutional law. He has also appeared on conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt's Fox News program The Hugh Hewitt Show, commenting on law.[26]

Eastman served as an attorney for the State of South Dakota, representing it in a denied petition to the U.S. Supreme Court in a constitutional challenge to federal spending.[27]

Eastman has represented the North Carolina legislature and the State of Arizona in unsuccessfully petitioning the Supreme Court in cases involving same-sex marriage,[28] abortion,[29] and immigration.[30]

He testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2014 arguing that President Barack Obama's unilateral suspension of deportation for undocumented immigrants was unconstitutional.[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

16. The Chapman campus is in Orange, not Tustin

The campus is north of CA 22, and Tustin is well south of that freeway. I had to get on and off the freeway at the Chapman exit every single day for work, so I know the area well.

Calling it a rw school is entirely justified. That note about Eastman doing Hewitt's radio show? Hewitt, the moron rw pundit, is also a professor at Chapman, to this day. Tom Campbell, former rep for CA-12/15 (R) was a professor there as well. Total scumbag. But so is Hewitt. Telling that Wikipedia leaves that out, and leaves out Eastman on the main Chapman page.

Why Wiki is not a fit source for citations. The information is subject to bad actors contributing slanted information to it, or removing unflattering information as well.

[ancianita]

17. My mistake, not Wiki's. I visited a friend in Tustin, right next to Orange, where he drove me around

Chapman's campus, where my friend has worked for the last couple of years. This was back in February. Orange is also where Katie Porter's from. It's amazing she was elected by that district.

The rest of Wikipedia's entry on Eastman is factual. I will use Wikipedia every chance I get. I donate to it every year.
It is the encyclopedia of the commons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Your negative judgment of Wikipedia is duly noted.

Thanks for the correction.

[jgo]

2. Here is what the document says

What does it mean? These are If and In the Event statements - what will actually happen?

It seems this is the start of some process, and these are warnings of what steps may be taken.

"
NOTICE - INACTIVE ENROLLMENT! YOU ARE HEREBY FURTHER NOTIFIED THAT IF THE STATE BAR COURT FINDS, PURSUANT TO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE SECTION 6007(c), THAT YOUR CONDUCT POSES A SUBSTANTIAL THREAT OF HARM TO THE INTERESTS OF YOUR CLIENTS OR TO THE PUBLIC, YOU MAY BE INVOLUNTARILY ENROLLED AS AN INACTIVE ATTORNEY OF THE STATE BAR. YOUR INACTIVE ENROLLMENT WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO ANY DISCIPLINE RECOMMENDED BY THE COURT.

NOTICE - COST ASSESSMENT! IN THE EVENT THESE PROCEDURES RESULT IN PUBLIC DISCIPLINE, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE PAYMENT OF COSTS INCURRED BY THE STATE BAR IN THE INVESTIGATION, HEARING AND REVIEW OF THIS MATTER PURSUANT TO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE SECTION 6086.10.

NOTICE – MONETARY SANCTION! IN THE EVENT THIS MATTER RESULTS IN ACTUAL SUSPENSION, DISBARMENT, OR RESIGNATION WITH CHARGES PENDING, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO THE PAYMENT OF A MONETARY SANCTION NOT TO EXCEED $5,000 FOR EACH VIOLATION, TO A MAXIMUM OF $50,000 PER DISCIPLINARY ORDER, PURSUANT TO BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE SECTION 6086.13. SEE RULE 5.137, RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA.
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[jmowreader]

4. This is for people whose legal skills are hazardous to the public

Disbarment takes some time and if they left you running around unchecked you could screw up a lot of people before they were able to pull your license. By doing this it keeps you from doing any more damage.

[jgo]

7. thanks

[Scottie Mom]

6. This is an immediate suspension pending the outcome of the proceedings for the charges filed.

Eastman will either be disbarred, suspended for a particular time, or allowed to practice under certain remedial terms and this latter would most likely be with certain conditions including a probation monitor.

I have seen attys disbarred for much, much less.

[jgo]

8. thanks

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Good!

He was one of the architects - and someone needs to get to Carnival Cruz too who helped to formulate the bogus arguments and "stood ready" to do oral arguments at the SCOTUS.

Trump asked Ted Cruz to argue Texas election lawsuit if it reaches Supreme Court

By Betsy Klein, Jim Acosta and Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 10:12 PM EST, Wed December 9, 2020

CNN — President Donald Trump personally asked Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas if he would argue a long-shot election lawsuit seeking to overturrn the election results in four battleground states, should the Supreme Court agree to take it up, two sources told CNN on Wednesday.

Trump inquired on Tuesday whether Cruz would argue the case, which was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday night in an effort to block election results from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of which were won by President-elect Joe Biden. Cruz agreed to do so, according to a spokesperson. A source familiar with the conversation said Trump has asked Cruz to argue a number of these election challenges.

(snip)

News of Cruz’s potential involvement comes after Trump got involved in Paxton’s case on Wednesday, asking the Supreme Court in a court filing to block millions of votes from the four states. The President is being represented by a new attorney, John Eastman, who is known for recently pushing a racist conspiracy theory that claimed Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was not eligible for the role because her parents were immigrants.

(snip)

Cruz, who has argued nine cases before the Supreme Court, tweeted Monday that he stood “ready to present the oral argument” in a case from Pennsylvania Republicans urging the court to block certification of the commonwealth’s election results. On Tuesday, the court denied the petitioners’ request to hear the Pennsylvania case, delivering a near fatal blow to the GOP’s long-shot bid to invalidate Biden’s victory.

(snip)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/trump-ted-cruz-supreme-court/index.html

[republianmushroom]

5. Tsk Tsk, John

“false and misleading statements” does that mean lying, John. An attorney lying, darn, what's next ?

[getagrip_already]

9. The florida bar will probably admit him.....

And some gop potus will eventually appoint him to a federal court. He's probably too old for a scotus nod, but they would probably give him one if younger. Maybe a maga USAG.

Sadly, whle the above is snark, it will likely be a badge of honor in the gop ranks for decades to come.

[Effete Snob]

14. Unlike medical licenses...

Doctors can state-hop a fair amount.

It is pretty difficult to become admitted in another state if you've been disbarred in one, though.

[erronis]

15. Yeah. It's amazing how the RW groups idolize failures. Reagan, Bushes, R.E.Lee, Trump, Abbot

Reagan National Airport - hah.

[Novara]

10. Nice

FAFO, asshole

[moniss]

11. Notice that he also clerked for Crooked Clarence

and for those who don't remember he is the poser who rolls around in a buckskin fringed jacket and frontier hat.

[Scottie Mom]

13. How fitting.

Crooked assholes of a feather flock together.

[lees1975]

12. Everyone involved in the insurrection is getting slapped with consequences

except the guy who initiated the whole thing, planned it out and brought it together.