John Eastman faces 'uphill battle' to avoid getting disbarred: legal expert

John Eastman, the far-right lawyer who helped craft the proposal to throw out the results of the 2020 presidential election, is on the verge of being stripped of his law license from the state of California, reported NPR.

"The State Bar of California opened its case this week against Eastman in State Bar Court in downtown Los Angeles, arguing he knowingly and willfully pushed false and outlandish allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, promoted an 'unlawful' scheme to overturn the election results, and should lose his law license. The trial continues today with additional testimony from the State Bar's witnesses," reported Tom Dreisbach. "'Dr. Eastman and President Trump conspired to disrupt the electoral count on Jan. 6,' said Duncan Carling, an attorney with the State Bar's Office of Chief Trial Counsel, in his opening statement."

Eastman, who previously triggered outrage for a racist and completely unfounded op-ed claiming that Kamala Harris was not a citizen and ineligible for federal office, is most famous for writing a memo that outlined a plan to overthrow the election: have Pence declare that the electors in several swing states are invalid, leaving no majority winner and kicking the presidential contest to a vote of the House, where Trump had enough delegations to win a vote.

Even Eastman himself privately admitted this plan was illegal, raising questions about his ethics as an attorney.

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Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson was blunt: "I think that John Eastman has an uphill battle here in the sense that his particular views have been discredited. The election was not stolen, there was not rampant fraud, there was no basis for sending alternative slates of electors to the Electoral College."

All of this comes after Giuliani himself was recommended for disbarment by an ethics panel in Washington, D.C., where he is licensed.