John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, was slapped with disciplinary charges that could lead to his disbarment.
Conservative attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, was slapped Thursday with a series of disciplinary charges in California that could lead to his disbarment.
The State Bar said Eastman faces charges that he violated the business and professions code by making false and misleading statements that constitute acts of "moral turpitude, dishonesty, and corruption." The State Bar's action "is part of a nationwide effort to use the bar discipline process to penalize attorneys who opposed the current administration in the last presidential election. Americans of both political parties should be troubled by this politicization of our nation's state bars," Miller's statement said.
Eastman has been a member of the California Bar since 1997, according to its website. He was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute. He ran for California attorney general in 2010, finishing second in the Republican primary.
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