Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark could lose his law license after a DC Bar panel found that he violated ethics rules in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
DC Disciplinary Counsel Phil Fox said he will seek to have Clark disbarred after the panel’s preliminary ruling Thursday. The committee said Clark broke at least one lawyer ethics rule by lying about supposed election fraud in an effort to swing the election for Donald Trump.
The three-person committee’s decision is preliminary and non-binding. It came after a seven-day hearing in which Clark was accused of plotting a Justice Department ...
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