Attorney John Eastman, testifying at his disciplinary trial on Thursday, claimed he had a First Amendment right to speak out as a private citizen and not as counsel to Donald Trump when he addressed the former president’s supporters ahead of their Jan. 6, 2021 raid on the US Capitol.
Eastman, on cross examination in his California State Bar Court trial on moral and legal violations, defended comments made during a short speech to the crowd gathered to protest the presidential election Trump had just lost to Joe Biden.
The California Bar, which seeks to lift the conservative lawyer’s license ...
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