'Malpractice': Legal expert shreds John Eastman's lawyer for defending coup plot
John Eastman's lawyer is engaged in "malpractice" to try to defend his client's actions surrounding the 2020 plot to overturn the presidential election, former Solicitor General Neal Katyal argued on MSNBC Monday.
This comes shortly after the attorney, Charles Burnham, claimed that his client was "reasonable" in pursuing a pardon from former President Donald Trump after allegedly drafting a memo outlining an illegal scheme to throw out electors — even though Burnham insisted his client is innocent.
"He's got a tough job to do. He is trying to do it. Notably, Charles Burnham's not doing what John Eastman did, which was plot a coup actively, he's just trying, after the fact, to defend it," Katyal said.
"But the defense we just heard, ...to me, is so weak as to be almost laughable. 'Coup plotter' is not a description for a lawyer. And if Mr. Burnham wants to call John Eastman's efforts here advising a client or representing a client, then I think there's only one word to describe that, which is malpractice."
"There is a good reason John Eastman is being called a co-conspirator and not a constitutional scholar," Katyal continued. "I mean, if Eastman were just writing law review articles or, as Mr. Burnham said, debating some law professors on podcasts, that would be one thing. But instead, what he did is actively pressure the vice president and state legislatures to go through with the harebrained scheme that ...even he thought was illegal."
"You don't go seeking a pardon if you thought what you were doing was kosher," added Katyal.
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