An indictment in Arizona said John #Eastman encouraged GOP electors to cast their votes in December 2020, unsuccessfully pressured state lawmakers to change the election’s outcome in Arizona and told then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could reject Democratic electors in the counting of electoral votes in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
#Trump himself was not charged in the Arizona case but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.
Charges have not yet been made public against Rudy #Giuliani, the former New York mayor and Trump-aligned attorney, but he was readily identifiable based on descriptions of the defendants in the indictment. No arraignment date has been scheduled for Giuliani. Arizona authorities say they have been unable to serve Giuliani with the notice of the charges …
Last year, Eastman was indicted on racketeering, conspiracy and other charges in a scheme to overturn the 2020 president election in Georgia.
He has pleaded not guilty to the Georgia charges.
Eastman also is named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the sprawling federal indictment filed in Washington against Trump for working to overturn the resultsof the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
🙄 Former Donald Trump lawyer John #Eastman pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in #Arizona.
JUST IN: A judge in Colorado asks whether he should terminate John #EASTMAN from a First Amendment case because of Eastman's recent disbarment ruling. #legal
"Former Trump lawyer and coup architect John Eastman can no longer practice law in California. The New Republic reported: It’s official: John Eastman, Trump’s former lawyer, can no longer practice law…"
@GottaLaff
GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia lawsuit in California lists #Eastman as one of the plaintiffs' lawyers.
“Given the serious and extensive nature of Eastman’s unethical actions, the most severe available professional sanction is warranted to protect the public and preserve the public confidence in the legal system.”
"In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman's misconduct & balancing the aggravation & mitigation, the court recommends that #Eastman be #disbarred," State #Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland said in Wed's filling.
Investigators for the #California bar said #JohnEastman made "demonstrably false & misleading statements" w/the memos he drafted that became the framework for the "legal strategies" aimed at having then-VP #MikePence interfere w/the certification of the 2020 election.
JOHN #EASTMAN just appeared on 5th fl of #Fulton Cty courthouse ahead of procedural hearing before Judge McAfee. Most of today's motions are from codefendant #HarrisonFloyd
As far as I can remember this is 1st time we've seen Eastman in Fulton since his surrender at cty jail in Aug
#Eastman’s lawyer is delaying proceedings with his loud complaints that #FaniWillis doesn’t trim her toenails evenly, moving to “dismiss the whole shitteree.” Probably.
"On Friday, The #Detroit News... reported that it had obtained internal emails showing how extensively the #Trump Campaign managed the fake #Michigan electors...
And #Chesebro is cooperating with federal & state prosecutors.
The emails & Chesebro’s testimony will help tie #Eastman & Trump directly to the scheme, with likely ripple effects both in the federal D.C. case & in the #Georgia RICO action."
A newly unsealed court filing from Sept 2022 shows that as prosecutors fought to access emails of John EASTMAN and Jeff CLARK, they were investigating at least 2 potential charges against #Trump-world figures:
Obstruction & false statements.
A redacted version was released last year when Judge Howell unsealed key filings that described intensive effort by prosecutors (before Jack Smith took over) to access Clark/Eastman/Perry comms. But precise laws at issue were unclear
The details underscore the intensive effort DOJ undertook — beginning as early as spring 2022 and carrying through May 2023 — to battle resistance from Trump allies in order access key evidence that undergirds the case against Trump and coconspirators. #legal#Eastman#JeffClark
In #Trump’s #Fulton County case, John #Eastman asks Judge McAfee to split the remaining defendants into 2 groups to be tried “absent former President Trump.”
This will allow those defendants’ trials to be completed w/in 2024, Eastman contends
Language in motion is a little confusing but I think Eastman envisages 3 trials in this scenario
1 trial for Trump alone & 2 trials for remaining defendants, grouped into buckets of 7-8 people each. #legal#TrumpIndictment#Georgia
Real shame. 🎻 Rudy Giuliani joins your self-inflicted club.
“Far-right attorney John #Eastman, one of #Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, told conservative publication The Federalist his legal expenses in the case have left him in a dire financial situation.”- Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/john-eastman-fulton-county-mugshot/
NEW: A California judge has recommended that John #Eastman, the lawyer at the center of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, be disbarred and lose his #law license.
#Scotus' Ginni Thomas's good friend and fellow insurrectionist John Eastman, the former Orange County law school dean who helped forge Donald Trump’s legal strategy for retaining power after losing his 2020 presidential bid, should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ruled Wednesday.
Judge Yvette Roland’s recommendation to yank the 63-year-old Eastman’s license to practice law in California will go to the state Supreme Court, which has the power to approve it.
In a marathon trial that lasted off and on from June to November, the State Bar, the agency that regulates lawyers, Eastman is unfit to practice law for peddling bogus claims that fraud cost Trump the election and for promoting a fake-elector scheme to block the electoral count.