The thoroughness of a California judge’s ruling and the state high court’s slim record of rejecting disbarment recommendations make it highly unlikely that Donald Trump attorney John Eastman will win his fight to keep his California law license, legal ethics attorneys and scholars say.
State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland’s decision, issued late Wednesday, may also complicate the lawyer’s legal defense against criminal charges of election interference in Georgia.
Eastman’s comments and writings after Trump lost the 2020 US presidential election—particularly the attorney’s assertion that then-Vice President Mike Pence could delay counting 2020 presidential election electoral votes—held “reckless disregard for ...
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