A bipartisan group of legal minds and former officials filed a complaint against an adviser to former President Trump
The complaint, led by the States United Democracy Center, calls on the California bar to investigate John Eastman, who was part of the legal team that represented Trump in cases contesting the 2020 presidential election vote, to determine if he “violated his ethical obligations as an attorney.”
“The available evidence supports a strong case that the State Bar should investigate whether, in the course of representing Mr. Trump, Mr. Eastman violated his ethical obligations as an attorney by filing frivolous claims, making false statements, and engaging in deceptive conduct,” the complaint reads.
“There is also a strong basis to investigate whether Mr. Eastman assisted in unlawful actions by his client, Mr. Trump,” it added.
The complaint was also signed by two former California Supreme Court justices. Eastman is a conservative who previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
The complaint references Eastman’s speech at the “Stop the Steal” rally before the Jan. 6 riots and two memos that Eastman spearheaded.
Those memos laid out a case for why then-Vice President Mike Pence
Pence actually had no power to stop the Electoral College count by Congress, as his role in the process is largely ceremonial. He did read out objections from GOP lawmakers to the count, which led to votes in the House and Senate on the counts in certain states.
Eastman reportedly proposed a plan to Pence in the Oval Office on Jan. 4 which called for tossing the election results in seven states by claiming that they used alternate electors, according to the new book “Peril.”
He also reportedly said that Pence could declare Trump the victor of the election once the voters were disposed of.
Eastman, however, told the Post in an interview on Monday that the first memo was preliminary, and in the second he was clearly writing out choices for Trump and Pence, which was meant to “outline all of the scenarios that had been…
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