All posts tagged "Jeff Clark"

A former top Justice Department official indicted in the Georgia election scheme defended Donald Trump against the need for a pardon.

Jeffrey Clark, who has pleaded not guilty to violating the state’s racketeering law and attempting to make false statements, pushed back Friday morning against a column by the National Review's executive editor Mark Antonio Wright, who argued that president Joe Biden should pardon the president-elect for the crimes he allegedly committed.

"He should do this not because Trump is entirely blameless for the circumstances surrounding his indictments that have been leveled against him," Wright wrote. "He's not blameless, especially in the Mar-a-Lago classified-documents case, where the publicly available evidence shows that Trump, at a minimum, negligent and, at maximum, absolutely complicit in ignoring the statutes governing the handling of classified information and, possibly, those concerning the obstruction of justice." ...

On Thursday, a Washington, D.C. Bar disciplinary panel delivered a significant verdict, stating that former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark had violated ethics rules in a serious attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The panel's chair, Merril Hirsh, emphasized that the decision was non-binding and subject to change based on briefs. He then moved on to the sanctions phase of the trial.

"Percent of board rule 1111, the hearing committee convened an executive session to decide preliminarily whether we find that disciplinary counsel has proven at least one violation of any of the charge disciplinary rules," Hirsh announced. "And we have preliminarily and on a nonbinding basis concluded that disciplinary counsel has so approved, so we will move to a hearing, this is on an argument on potential sanction." ...

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) was criticized Wednesday for offering a last-minute affidavit in Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary trial.

Moments before closing his case, Clark's attorney, Harry MacDougald, asked to admit one final piece of evidence: an affidavit from Perry. Bar Co-chair Merril Hirsh called a recess to distribute the affidavit to disciplinary counsel Hamilton Fox III.

Fox strongly objected to Perry's submission. The congressman was reportedly central to a plan to overturn the presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021. ...

Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes and Donald Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark traded some pointed barbs Sunday.

Former Justice Department official Clark, who was arrested along with Donald Trump for allegedly trying to use the Justice Department to lean on Georgia to block its electoral count, is no stranger to internet feuds. Late last year, legal experts piled on him after he lashed out against former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal over Burning Man.

Now, however, he is picking a different fight with Sykes....

Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee denied a heavily redacted motion by former President Donald Trump's one-time Justice Department official and criminal co-defendant Jeffrey Clark, requesting a delay in his case, reported Politico's Kyle Cheney on Friday.

Few details are available through the private information that's been withheld. However, Clark requested an extension in the February 5 deadline to file motions, due to some heavily redacted circumstance that, according to him, constitutes a "significant impediment to his ability to assist in his own defense."

Clark, who in addition to the criminal election racketeering case in Georgia is facing a threat of disbarment, was allegedly one of the most prominent figures in the Justice Department pushing Trump's election conspiracy theories, and trying to push for federal officials to transmit a directive to Georgia to hold off on the certification of the election for President Joe Biden....

Jenna Ellis, the Donald Trump attorney who tearfully pleaded guilty to 2020 election interference crimes, has been feuding on social media with Jeff Clark, an ex-Trump official and a fellow Trump co-defendant.

It appears to have started with a post by Ellis, who recently condemned Christian nationalism following the beheading of a Satanic statute by a former candidate. On Thursday, Ellis posted again about the statue, writing, "A Missouri politician vandalized a Satanist statue in the Iowa Capitol."

"Some say it's righteous civil disobedience," she wrote Thursday. "Does God require Christians to destroy monuments to false gods?"...