Eastman’s Free Speech Argument Rejected by State Bar Panel (2)

John Eastman, who advanced baseless legal theories as President Donald Trump’s attorney leading up to the raid on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, should lose his law license, a California State Bar review panel ruled.

“There is a distinction with a difference between hard-fought cases premised on actual facts and cutting-edge legal theories and those cases pushed forward based on, at best, mere speculation and a disingenuous take on the law,” the opinion authored by Judge W. Kearse McGill said. “Eastman unfortunately took the latter path instead of the former.”

The three-judge panel stopped short of finding the former ...