State bar uses John Eastman’s ‘stunningly deficient’ Gaetz and MTG ‘conspiracy theory’ against him after judge’s disbarment recommendation

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, John Eastman

Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz (left), (right) attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong).

The State Bar of California’s Office of Chief Trial Counsel said Wednesday that Jan. 6 “coup memo” lawyer John Eastman cannot pause his “inactive enrollment” following a judge’s disbarment recommendation. The opposition to the requested stay noticeably cited a “stunningly deficient” recent pleading to support the position that Eastman’s lawyering still “poses a threat of harm” to the public.

In late March, State Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland found Eastman violated 10 of 11 attorney misconduct counts he faces, only dismissing one moral turpitude count relating the Eastman’s Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse in the course of representing former President Donald Trump.

The judge pointed out that Eastman’s Jan. 6 theory that then Vice President Mike Pence had the power under the 12th Amendment as President of the Senate to unilaterally overturn the election was not a belief Eastman had long held. Roland said the 2020 election position Eastman espoused ran counter to what he said in 2000 about Bush v. Gore on the 12th Amendment and Electoral Count Act.

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