‘Coup memo’ author and pro-Trump lawyer facing disbarment for false statements about the election is now trying to limit who can vote in primaries

Attorney John Eastman appears in two photos

Left Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong). Right: Eastman speaks at the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally in support of Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021 (Screengrab via YouTube)

In a searing recommendation for John Eastman’s disbarment on Wednesday, a judge on the State Bar Court of California recounted how a legal scholar advanced spurious theories in contravention of what he claimed to believe from Bush v. Gore until October 2020 about the 12th Amendment and Electoral Count Act, only to become the driving force behind Jan. 6 efforts to block congressional certification of the election Donald Trump lost.

State Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland found that the Office of Chief Trial Counsel (OCTC) successfully proved Eastman violated 10 of 11 attorney misconduct counts, only dismissing one moral turpitude count relating the Eastman’s Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse.

“Although four of the five statements made at the Ellipse were false and misleading, OCTC failed to provide any evidence that Eastman’s statements ‘contributed to provoking the crowd to assault and breach the Capitol . . . when such harm was foreseeable,”” Roland explained.

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