John Eastman speaks with Emerald Robinson and says the Supreme Court needs to step in after Trump’s Manhattan convictions (The Absolute Truth/screengrab)
A twice indicted former law professor who faces possible disbarment for pushing the legal theory that then Vice President Mike Pence had the power to overturn the 2020 election outcome on Jan. 6 by accepting “alternate slates of electors” said over the weekend that Donald Trump’s lawyers must employ a “rare move” at the U.S. Supreme Court following the former president’s Manhattan hush-money felony convictions on 34 counts.
John Eastman told Emerald Robinson, the host of “The Absolute Truth” on Frank Speech, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell‘s streaming app and website, that Trump’s guilty verdicts in the falsification of business records case amounted to a “judicial lynching” traceable to certain rulings by Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the trial judge.
“I urge Trump’s legal team to file a writ of habeas corpus — original writ — with the Supreme Court of the United States. It’s a rare move, but I think it needs to be done given these extraordinary circumstances before people start seeking remedies on their own,” Eastman said, seemingly hinting at the possibility of violence should the justices not act.
2020: Ken Chesebro tells John Eastman that the threat of “chaos” on Jan. 6 could force Supreme Court to act.
2024: John Eastman says if Supreme Court doesn’t act to protect Trump there could be chaos/violence.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 3, 2024
“They have to see what the rest of us have seen about how dangerous the left’s lawfare has now become,” Eastman added, slamming a Trump hush-money case filled with “contradictions” and “violations of due process.”
“One hopes the Supreme Court will understand and take it up and understand the risk of not taking it up, to let this play out with the leading candidate for president — who looks like he’s guaranteed to win right now — of being sent to jail, sent to prison during the height of the election season,” Eastman said. “And if they don’t see the danger that that poses to our republic, then God help them and God help us, but I think they will see it.”
University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck, for one, indicated that Eastman’s writ of habeas corpus suggestion is not just a “rare move” but certain to fail if tried.
“The Supreme Court hasn’t granted an ‘original’ writ of habeas corpus since 1925—including in cases, unlike Trump’s, in which convicted defendants had *no other forum* in which to bring their claims,” Vladeck noted. “This would have a 0.0% chance of succeeding.”
While even former Manhattan DA Cy Vance (D) believes there “will be strong appeals” for Trump, the truth is that those appeals have yet to make their way through the New York court system.
Also during the “Absolute Truth” appearance, Eastman reasserted his belief that there was a massive fraud in 2020, which may be relevant considering that the California judge who issued a disbarment recommendation cited his “refusal to acknowledge any wrongdoing” and his continuing “threat to the public” as bases for not allowing him to practice law in the state as he appeals.
Eastman was similarly suspended in Washington, D.C., pending the “final disposition” of the California disciplinary case.
“Dr. Eastman, you know the evidence from the 2020 election of the fraud better than anybody, let’s be honest,” Robinson chimed in.
Eastman nodded his head in the affirmative.
“Well, let me put it this way: the support [for Trump post-verdict] will make it more difficult to commit the fraud without it being even more blatantly obvious than it was in 2020. And hopefully that will encourage the courts to weigh in in a way they take a pass on in the last go-around,” he said, before elaborating: “If this stuff is not fixed right now and this genie not put back in that bottle or that Pandora’s box lid closed back up, we may never get another chance again to have fair and free elections and therefore to have a government based on the consent of the governed.”
“All the marbles are in play right now,” Eastman stated.
The Eastman segment ended with Robinson encouraging viewers to donate to his legal defense fund which, to date, has raised nearly $900,000.
Robinson formerly worked as a White House correspondent for One America News Network and Newsmax, but the latter sidelined her and decided not to renew her contract after she tweeted: “Dear Christians: the vaccines contain a bioluminescent marker called LUCIFERASE so that you can be tracked.”
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