Attorney John Eastman fought to overturn the 2020 presidential election and keep Donald Trump in power.
Now, he’s fighting to keep his law license.
The State Bar of California opened its case this week against Eastman in State Bar Court in downtown Los Angeles, arguing he knowingly and willfully pushed false and outlandish allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, promoted an “unlawful” scheme to overturn the election results, and should lose his law license. The trial continues today with additional testimony from the State Bar’s witnesses.
“Dr. Eastman and President Trump conspired to disrupt the electoral count on Jan. 6,” said Duncan Carling, an attorney with the State Bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel, in his opening statement. Eastman has a Ph.D. in government from Claremont Graduate University, and both sides in the case refer to him as Dr. Eastman.
A former dean of the law school at Chapman University, Eastman was a key player in Trump’s effort to block Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, including the plan to send alternate slates of pro-Trump electors to Congress. In addition to working on Trump’s legal challenges, he appeared at the Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump rally alongside former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, fired up the crowd with claims of voter fraud, and pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to toss out Biden’s Electoral College victory. Hours later, a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Carling said Eastman’s conduct related to the election was “fundamentally dishonest” and the legal theory he advanced “was baseless, completely unsupported by historical precedent or law, and contrary to our values as a nation.”
Eastman’s attorney, Randy Miller, said in his opening statement that Eastman’s…
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