‘A major milestone’: Pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman in trouble with California State Bar Court after judge issues ‘preliminary finding of culpability’

John Eastman

FILE – Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, talks to reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, June 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Conservative attorney John Eastman is pleading with California ethics authorities to let him continue practicing law as he faces his own looming criminal trial on racketeering (RICO) charges in Georgia.

On Wednesday, Eastman filed a 50-page motion with the California State Bar’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel asking to stay a judge’s recent order recommending his disbarment over various failed efforts to use the legal system to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

“While attorneys have a duty to advocate zealously for their clients, they must do so within the bounds of ethical and legal constraints,” State Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland wrote in her late March order. “Eastman’s actions transgressed those ethical limits by advocating, participating in and pursuing a strategy to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election that lacked evidentiary or legal support. Vigorous advocacy does not absolve Eastman of his professional responsibilities around honesty and upholding the rule of law.”

In her order, Roland placed Eastman on inactive enrollment; the final decision on his law license is up to the California Supreme Court.

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