Eastman Defends Urging Mike Pence to Delay Election Vote Count

Trump campaign lawyer John Eastman on Monday pushed back against California State Bar arguments he lacked evidence to support claims to Vice President Mike Pence that more than 100 lawmakers wanted to delay the 2020 president vote count.

The former Chapman University law school dean is defending his law license against California bar charges of violating moral turpitude, ethics rules, and state law regulating lawyer conduct related to memos he wrote for the campaign, strategizing how to secure a second term for then-President Donald Trump after he’d lost the 2020 presidential election, and for remarks made ahead of the Jan. ...