'It's not looking good' for John Eastman at disbarment hearing: report

Attorney John Eastman, the author of the infamous so-called "coup memo" that pushed for then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject certified election results, is currently fighting to retain his law license in the state of California.

The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery reports that "it's not looking good" for Eastman's chances of avoiding disbarment right now, as the former Trump lawyer's past statements have come back to haunt him.

In particular, notes Pagliery, the testimony of former Mike Pence attorney Greg Jacob appears to have seriously hurt Eastman's chances of winning his disbarment case because it provided damning insight into his state of mind as he pushed for Pence to take the unprecedented step of halting the certification of a presidential election.

"Jacob... testified that Eastman knew his stop-the-vote plan was utterly ludicrous — plainly evident by the way the conservative legal scholar came to the obvious conclusion himself that it would never pass the Supreme Court, even the present one packed with Trump appointees," writes Pagliery.

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Although losing his law license might be a dire blow to Eastman professionally, Pagliery says that even more ominous problems for the Trump lawyer are looming just around the corner.

"Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are widely expected to bring charges against Trump and a handful of co-conspirators who tried to erase Biden’s lead there by intimidating the state’s top elections official and replacing electors slated to vote for Biden with Trump loyalists who signed a document purporting to represent the state’s real electors," he concludes. "While Eastman losing his law license in California would be the sternest punishment he’s faced yet, it would hardly compare to a criminal indictment in Fulton County."