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Nevilledog

(51,117 posts) Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:12 PM Mar 27

California State Bar recommends that John Eastman be disbarred.

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California State Bar recommends that John Eastman be disbarred. (Original Post) Nevilledog Mar 27 OP

Link to full opinion Nevilledog Mar 27 #1

Consequences are coming for all the coup plotters and enablers malaise Mar 27 #2

Sure Can't Argue With Their Conclusions ProfessorGAC Mar 27 #3

What? That sum-a-bitch shyster ain't got hisself disbarred yet? struggle4progress Mar 27 #4

My reaction as well. Boomerproud Mar 27 #7

You don't say? Sneederbunk Mar 27 #5

Trump, the gift that keeps on taking. Johonny Mar 27 #6

Do it ! republianmushroom Mar 27 #8

The sooner, the better. (nt) Paladin Mar 27 #9

It seems if you hitch your wagon to the t$#&p shit show you end up getting burned and destroyed kimbutgar Mar 27 #10

Judge Roland also recommends a $10,000 sanction against him. catbyte Mar 27 #11

That seems way too small, to me. Dyedinthewoolliberal Mar 27 #18

Yes, please! ShazzieB Mar 27 #12

Like Ghouliani ffr Mar 27 #13

Disbar the MF. And so taint the Claremont Institute and Chapman College in Orange County. ancianita Mar 27 #14

Whoo hoo! surfered Mar 27 #15

Question DENVERPOPS Mar 27 #16

Rule 25 Ohio Joe Mar 27 #19

Thank you to the CA State Bar for doing the right thing. Irish_Dem Mar 27 #17

Nevilledog

(51,117 posts)

1. Link to full opinion

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:16 PM

Mar 27

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24521254-sbc-23-o-30029-decision-trial

malaise

(269,038 posts)

2. Consequences are coming for all the coup plotters and enablers

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:18 PM

Mar 27

Nice 😀

ProfessorGAC

(65,061 posts)

3. Sure Can't Argue With Their Conclusions

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:18 PM

Mar 27

He's lost everything because he thought he was the only smart person on earth.

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)

4. What? That sum-a-bitch shyster ain't got hisself disbarred yet?

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:20 PM

Mar 27

"The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding slowly"

Boomerproud

(7,954 posts)

7. My reaction as well.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:27 PM

Mar 27

Ridiculous. My cynicism has been proven correct over and over about the "process".

Sneederbunk

(14,291 posts)

5. You don't say?

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:20 PM

Mar 27

?si=wApQl5jC-EH79BWb

Johonny

(20,851 posts)

6. Trump, the gift that keeps on taking.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 07:25 PM

Mar 27

Yet he always finds new willing partners to screw.

republianmushroom

(13,613 posts)

8. Do it !

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:10 PM

Mar 27

Paladin

(28,262 posts)

9. The sooner, the better. (nt)

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:14 PM

Mar 27

kimbutgar

(21,157 posts)

10. It seems if you hitch your wagon to the t$#&p shit show you end up getting burned and destroyed

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:16 PM

Mar 27

catbyte

(34,402 posts)

11. Judge Roland also recommends a $10,000 sanction against him.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:31 PM

Mar 27

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,577 posts)

18. That seems way too small, to me.

Reply to catbyte (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:48 PM

Mar 27

I'd like to see it be $100K. That would get peoples attention.

ShazzieB

(16,412 posts)

12. Yes, please!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:36 PM

Mar 27

I've been hoping for this outcome. (I don't know if this means it's a done deal yet, but it sounds like that's where things are headed.)

ffr

(22,670 posts)

13. Like Ghouliani

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 08:41 PM

Mar 27

ancianita

(36,064 posts)

14. Disbar the MF. And so taint the Claremont Institute and Chapman College in Orange County.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:08 PM

Mar 27

Both are disgusting right wing doctrine factories.

the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public-interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.[2][3] He is a former professor and former dean at Chapman University School of Law.[4] ...

one of the six alleged co-conspirators listed in the Justice Department’s indictment of Trump.[6]
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Eastman wrote a controversial op-ed in August 2020 that falsely suggested the then-presumed Democratic nominee for U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was not a "natural-born citizen" within the meaning of Article II of the Constitution and thus ineligible for the position.[7][8][9]
Eastman was a key participant in the subsequent attempts to overturn the election;[10][11][12][13] during President Donald Trump's last efforts before the certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, Eastman told Vice President Mike Pence in an Oval Office meeting, on January 5, 2021, that Pence had the constitutional authority to block the certification...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman

Everything about this con man should put him behind bars as much as being disbarred.