Trump Lawyer Eastman Likely to Lose Fifth Amendment, Stay Bids

John Eastman likely can’t escape testifying about memos he authored suggesting that the vice president could reject electoral votes to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election, a state bar judge said Thursday.

During the seventh day of testimony in Eastman’s trial on ethical and legal violations, Judge Yvette D. Roland tentatively ruled to deny the former Chapman University law dean’s motion to invoke the Fifth Amendment or stay the proceedings.

• Roland said the “key measure” for her ruling, likely released Friday, is that Eastman “waived his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by testifying for over ...