The first week of the disbarment hearing of Trump attorney John Eastman concluded on Friday, with State Bar of California (SBC) attorneys putting Eastman on the witness stand again along with Nevada Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Mark Waschin. The SBC continued to try and show that Eastman provided bad advice to President Donald Trump by telling him that one option for handling election fraud in the 2020 election would be to have Vice President Mike Pence reject certification of electoral votes from the disputed states.
Mark Fitzgibbons, a First Amendment attorney, said he was skeptical about the merits of the trial. “‘They’ want him punished not for any Bar violation, but for articulating credible legal bases of election fraud, illegalities, and irregularities, hence the reason to question the legitimacy of the Biden presidency,” he tweeted. ‘They’ want to whitewash reality.” The Arizona Sun Times reached out to Fitzgibbons for further comment and he responded, “They want to intimidate lawyers so they don’t work for MAGA or conservative candidates and causes.”
When SBC attorney Duncan Carling asked Eastman about remarks he’d made stating there was election fraud, Eastman did not try to back away from them. In one of his pleadings, Eastman said there was “ample fraud and illegality” in four states during the 2020 election.
