![]() ![]() But I have run down every legal trail placed before me to its conclusion, and I respectfully conclude that as a legal framework, it is a result oriented position that you would never support if attempted by the opposition, and essentially entirely made up. “I share your concerns about what Democrats will do once in power,” Jacob wrote. But his legacy still sparks campus questions. John Eastman, the former Trump lawyer who helped foment the plan to invalidate the 2020 election results, left the Chapman University law faculty last year. 6 still haunts the California university where he taught 6 in Washington soon after Eastman spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally there, and as part of their case, attorneys for the California Bar are pointing to emails exchanged between Eastman and Jacob that day.Ĭalifornia How John Eastman’s role in Jan. “If Vice President Mike Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency,” Trump tweeted on the night of Jan. 6, Trump repeatedly suggested that Pence had the power to keep him in office by sending the vote back to the states. ![]() Jacob said there were voter “irregularities” in various states but no evidence they were large enough to have tilted the election. Instead, Jacob said, Pence saw his vote-counting role as “ministerial.” Jacob said Pence never believed that the constitutional framers - with their zeal for checks and balances, and loathing of King George III’s one-man rule - would want such power in one person’s hands. Jacob said that no vice president in American history had ever exercised such authority, or expressed belief that he possessed it. Testifying at Eastman’s Bar trial last week, Jacob, the vice president’s former lawyer, said Pence did not waver in his view that Eastman’s reject-the-electors proposal was baseless. In addition, Eastman is a possible target of a criminal probe related to the alternate-elector scheme in Georgia. Carter has ruled that Eastman “more likely than not” committed crimes in connection with the 2020 election. The FBI has seized his phone, and the committee has recommended that the Department of Justice consider prosecuting him for “obstruction of an official proceeding” and “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” 6 committee, he repeatedly invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. When Eastman appeared before the House Jan. Eastman faces trouble beyond the prospect of losing his license to practice law. The Bar trial is expected to continue at least through this week. He maintains that he shouldn’t be penalized for advancing a legal theory that a reasonable lawyer might consider viable. 6” by pressuring Pence to reject electors, promoting false claims that electoral cheating cost Trump the election, drumming up slates of bogus electors, and fueling the mob with falsehoods.Įastman’s defense is that he was exercising his 1st Amendment rights and acting as a vigorous advocate for his client, Trump. The State Bar accuses Eastman of ethics violations for attempting “to obstruct the electoral count on Jan. ![]() ![]() When Carling asked what effect such a plan would have had, if adopted, Eastman replied: “It’s uncharted territory.” In the aftermath of the election, Eastman made the case that contested states, where Biden had been declared the winner, had the power to decertify electors and pick pro-Trump alternates. Eastman, a former dean and professor at Chapman University law school, has been on and off the witness stand himself, his manner unapologetic and defiant under sharp questioning from Bar attorney Duncan Carling. ![]()
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