John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings

[ificandream]

Source: Politico.com

By KYLE CHENEY

08/07/2023 02:00 PM EDT

Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special counsel Jack Smith.

“[R]ecent developments in the investigation have renewed and intensified [Eastman’s] concerns that the federal government might bring charges against him,” his attorneys Randall Miller and Zachary Mayer wrote in an Aug. 4 filing posted to the court’s public docket on Monday.

Miller said the growing concern about criminal charges might prompt Eastman to assert his Fifth Amendment rights during disbarment proceedings. The Fifth Amendment generally allows people to refuse to provide testimony that could be used against them. But invoking the Fifth Amendment in the disbarment proceedings would jeopardize Eastman’s ability to defend his law license, his lawyers wrote.

“[Eastman] requests that the Court exercise its discretion to stay the State Bar’s disciplinary proceeding against him pending resolution of a parallel criminal investigation being conducted by Special Counsel Jack Smith and any trial or other proceedings that may result from that investigation,” Miller and Mayer wrote.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/07/eastman-trump-disbarment-postpone-00110131

[cactusfractal]

1. He's finding out

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8LqFrSr/

[Marthe48]

2. Be a man

Own what you did. Step up to the plate.

What a bunch of cry-baby losers.

[iluvtennis]

3. Please don't allow it judge. n/ t

[Kennah]

4. If he wants to represent himself criminally, then I say let him keep his law license

So long as it's on Pay Per View

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "I should remain a lawyer, because I'd have to show I'm a criminal to defend myself"

I mean, if he implicates himself in the federal J6 case, he shouldn't be a lawyer anyway, should he?

[Vinca]

6. Delay, delay, delay.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Hope the judge tells him to go get stuffed

Shouldn't have done the traitorous shit you did, asshole

Everything Trump Touches Dies.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Fawk him

[Botany]

9. FAFO

Just because you are facing criminal penalties does not
mean that you can't be held accountable for your actions
in another venue.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Suck it up snow flake... Take your disbarment like the Maggot you are.

[MissMillie]

11. I wonder if Eastman thinks his criminal efforts were worth it

All these headaches... in the name of trying to keep MAGA in the White House.

[reACTIONary]

15. He's a Clermont Institute Looney Tune....

.... who believes that America (the 'real' America, of course) must have "new founding and counterrevolution". They believe that history moves forward through crisis resolved through violence.

So all of these headaches, in his view, are on the order of the blood of Patriots, water for the tree of liberty.

https://www.thebulwark.com/what-the-hell-happened-to-the-claremont-institute/

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

12. Um...

No.

LOL No.

You don't get to deprive the state of California their day in court over your behavior just because you're FAFOing with the feds. You'll just have to learn to live with multiple cases running against you, just like your dear leader.

The justice system doesn't stop operating just for diddums.

[orangecrush]

13. +1

[republianmushroom]

14. No more delays, 2 1/2 years long enough, disbar him.

[Clash City Rocker]

16. "Don't disbar me because I'm probably going to get arrested"

Wait, what?

[TomSlick]

17. As a general proposition, there is no Fifth Amendment privilege in civil matters.

A disbarment proceeding has serious ramifications for the subject attorney but is, nevertheless, a civil matter.

Eastman should be put to an election. He can either testify at the disbarment proceedings and risk incriminating himself in the likely coming criminal case or refuse to testify in the disbarment proceedings with the likely result.

If I was advising Eastman (God forbid), I would tell him the likely criminal case is the far more important. If he is convicted of a felony, he will be disbarred anyway.

[BlueKota]

18. Wasn't there a t.v. theme song

that said, "don't do the crime, if you can't do the time?"😄

[struggle4progress]

19. "You can't disbar me yet because I might still be guilty of actual crimes!"

[cstanleytech]

20. Bullshit as after the trial he can appeal the disbarment if he is found not guilty.

[Pachamama]

21. +100000

Exactly

[SWBTATTReg]

22. You deserve to lose your license, and be disbarred, for your efforts in subverting Constitutional

law and getting others involved in your false interpretation of the Constitution. You don't deserve anything to do w/ the law anymore because of your bad decisions.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. His Defense In A Disabarment Hearing...

...is "I'm in bigger trouble somewhere else"? Oh, and for essentially the same actions?
Good luck with that.

[Kennah]

24. You don't need a criminal lawyer. You need a criminal [dramatic pause] lawyer.

[Hekate]

25. Did the judge laugh heartily at the presumptuous buffoon?

[prodigitalson]

26. gotta say, it'd suck to have you're name in a headline with the words 'indictment' AND 'disbarment'

all at once