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Law & Crime reports: The legal disciplinary board for attorneys in California has affirmed a recommendation that former law professor John Eastman be disbarred over his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election to favor President Donald Trump. On Friday, a three-judge panel on the California State Bar Court’s Review Department ruled on two separate …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that his former lawyer John Eastman was right about the illegalities and improprieties in the 2020 election and that his strategy to pursue challenges were correct. “I’m a big fan of John Eastman,” President Trump said. “Ya’ know, he was right. He happened to be right.” …

The Meidas Touch reports: John Eastman was the first of the indicted co-conspirators to turn himself in on the state charges in Maricopa County, with Rudy Giuliani, Christina Bobb, and Mark Meadows expected to do so over the next few weeks. After he was arrested and booked, Eastman appeared at his arraignment today with his attorney and entered a not …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Starting Friday morning, Arizona’s “fake electors” case will get going with the first of the 18 defendants walking into a basement courtroom in downtown Phoenix. One arraignment is scheduled Friday, for John C. Eastman. Eastman is the 64-year-old conservative law professor and former Trump lawyer who was the father of the fake elector scheme, according to …

Bloomberg Law reports: Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman has been temporarily suspended from practicing law in the District of Columbia in response to a similar prohibition by a California judge. The suspension is temporary until the final disposition of the California proceeding, DC Court of Appeals Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby wrote Friday. California State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland on …

Politico reports: A judge in California turned down an urgent plea Wednesday from John Eastman — an architect of Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election — to allow him to keep practicing law while he fights an effort to permanently revoke his license. Judge Yvette Roland recommended Eastman’s disbarment in March after finding he repeatedly breached legal ethics …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: John Eastman, once an attorney for former President Donald Trump, was de-banked twice in the span of several months by two prominent financial institutions, Bank of America and USAA, he told the Daily Caller. His accounts were closed as he faced substantial backlash for his work advising Trump around the time of the 2020 …

“The judge basically said ‘he should be disbarred because he’s showed no remorse.’ Well, I don’t show remorse and I don’t bend my knee too when the government is making false claims that the election was perfect and there’s nothing to see here. “There was a lot to see here and the more people look at it, the more devastatingly …

Politico reports: A California judge on Wednesday recommended the disbarment of John Eastman, calling to revoke the law license of one of former President Donald Trump’s top allies in his failed last-ditch gambit to subvert the 2020 election. Judge Yvette Roland, who presided over months of testimony and argument about the basis of Eastman’s fringe legal theories, ruled that the …

Posted to John Eastman’s money beg website: The goal of the lawfare attack against me is simple – my utter ruin. They are trying to bankrupt my family, destroy my reputation, take away my ability to earn a living in my chosen profession and imprison me. In the process they are demonstrating to other conservative lawyers that taking on election …

Politico reports: Federal prosecutors don’t appear to be done with John Eastman just yet. On Monday, a paralegal for special counsel Jack Smith’s office ordered transcripts from the recent disbarment trial of the former Donald Trump attorney. The move signals that prosecutors are still keeping tabs on Eastman, who helped orchestrate Trump’s last-ditch bid to remain in power despite his …

The far-right Federalist reports: Three lawsuits attempting to bankrupt a constitutional scholar for giving the prior Republican president legal advice will cost him $3 to $3.5 million, John Eastman said Friday. Eastman was a target of Democrats’ illegal Jan. 6 Committee and has been harassed by the FBI and courts since assisting Donald Trump in 2020 constitutional litigation. “This is …

CBS News reports: John Eastman says he’s innocent and he told us if he was ever guilty of anything it was giving bold legal advice to Donald Trump. One judge called Eastman’s strategy “a coup in search of a legal theory.” Today Eastman faces nine criminal counts in Georgia’s election conspiracy case. And we found he’s still handing out bold …

Politico reports: A California judge made a “preliminary finding” Thursday that attorney John Eastman breached professional ethics when he aided Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election, a significant milestone in the lengthy proceedings over whether Eastman should lose his license to practice law. Eastman said Thursday that the extensive disbarment proceedings — which delved deeply into his allegations …

NBC News reports: Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas for the first time recused himself from a case involving the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump as the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal brought by former Trump legal adviser John Eastman. Thomas, under fire over claims of ethical lapses, had participated last year …

“We’re now entering week five [of my disbarment trial], and there will be at least another week, six weeks of a full trial addressing claims against me that were initiated by this radical left-wing group called States United Democracy Center. This is part of the overall effort to disbar every attorney that had any involvement with the Trump legal challenges …

Via email from hate group leader Brian Brown: Lawfare. That is what is happening to John Eastman and his family. All conservatives should be outraged and want to join with us to help him push back. Dr. John Eastman is one of America’s foremost constitutional scholars. A true and trusted conservative, John has helped fight the left on countless issues …

The Huffington Post reports: The group of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ former clerks who signed on to a letter this week defending the justice from “attacks on his integrity, his character [and] his ethics” included one individual whose integrity has been drawn into serious question: John C. Eastman. Eastman is accused of undermining the core of American democracy — …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Laura Ingraham told John Eastman she has not seen evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election after he claimed there was. Appearing on Tuesday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle, Eastman repeated the false claim that substantial fraud took place. “Well, I had lots of evidence of fraud,” he declared in the pre-recorded …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, may not postpone his ongoing disbarment hearings just because he’s been indicted in Georgia, a California judge ruled Friday. Yvette Roland, a judge on the California State Bar Court, said Eastman had effectively waived any rights against self-incrimination by taking the stand in …