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Exaggeration207@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Trump adviser faces possible disbarment over his efforts to overturn 2020 election

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Trump adviser faces possible disbarment over his efforts to overturn 2020 election

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Exaggeration207@beehaw.org to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Attorney John Eastman, a lead architect of some of the former President Donald Trump's efforts to remain in power after the 2020 election, is facing possible disbarment. Disciplinary proceedings began Tuesday in Los Angeles. Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy that was aimed at helping Trump overturn the election by disrupting the counting of state electoral votes. The State Bar Court of California will hear testimony, in proceedings that could result in him losing his license to practice law in the state. Others expected to testify include Greg Jacob, a former attorney for Pence who pushed back against Eastman’s plan to have Pence stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
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    According to the article, this lawyer also clerked for Clarence Thomas. It’s insane that Thomas is still a Supreme Court justice:

    • Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas pushed officials to try and overturn the 2020 election results.
    • He was the only dissenting justice in the Supreme Court’s vote to approve the turnover of Trump documents to the Jan 6th committee
    • He is friends with Harlan Crow, a billionaire who is a part of a group called Club for Growth. This club has donated millions to GOP candidates that supported overturning the 2020 election results.
    • Exaggeration207@beehaw.orgOP
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      It’s insane that Thomas is still a Supreme Court justice

      Absolutely zero argument with you there.

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        And things started so well with his confirmation hearings … Who could have seen this coming?

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      Ah, another criminal with an absurd amount of power.

    • nzodd@beehaw.org
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      Sure is disgusting how people who already have more money than God are willing to destroy our country, literally, just for the relative equivalent of a stray penny you or I might find on a sidewalk.

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    ‘disbarment’ … wow. I mean the guy tries to overthrow democracy and he gets disbarment … how awful for him!!

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    … “faces” “possible” disbarment …
    I’ll be glad when it’s “has been disbarred, indicted AND convicted”

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    Good.

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    The American Bar Association has no integrity. The people in trump’s orbit who are allowed to practice law (heavy emphasis on the practice part) in obvious bad faith is a joke. Obvious grounds for these people to be disbarred left and right and nothing meaningful happens.

    It’s a sham org.

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    He looks like he’s nearing retirement age anyways, disbarment shouldn’t cost him much…

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    Looking at that haircut, I’m going to assume this man doesn’t make smart choices. Is that a frombover?

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