Tag Archives: John Eastman

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Trump campaign attorney John Eastman has been released from the Fulton County Jail after being booked and spending a couple of hours inside. “I’m confident that when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated,” Eastman told reporters outside the jail after being released. When asked …

From a statement distributed by John Eastman’s lawyers: I am here today to surrender to an indictment that should never have been brought. It represents a crossing of the Rubicon for our country, implicating the fundamental First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances. As troubling, it targets attorneys for their zealous advocacy on behalf of their …

Axios reports: Conservative lawyer John Eastman turned himself in to the Fulton County jail on Tuesday as part of the 2020 election interference case in Georgia, according to the jail’s online database. Eastman, one of former President Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the sprawling case, had until Friday at noon to surrender to authorities, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had …

NBC News reports: John Eastman, the lawyer charged by prosecutors in Georgia with helping to orchestrate former President Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme, has agreed to a $100,000 bond in the case, court filings show. In a “consent bond order” listed on the Fulton County Superior Court website, Eastman and prosecutors agreed to a $100,000 bond on the charges Eastman …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special counsel Jack Smith. “[R]ecent developments in the investigation have renewed and intensified [Eastman’s] concerns that the federal government might …

The New York Times reports: A lawyer for John Eastman, the architect of a plan central to former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, said on Thursday that he was “99.99 percent sure” that Mr. Eastman was among the unnamed co-conspirators mentioned in an indictment of Mr. Trump unsealed in Washington this week. The lawyer, Harvey …

Axios reports: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was identified by multiple media outlets as matching prosecutors’ description of “Co- conspirator 1,” who is accused of spreading “knowingly false claims.” He pursued legal strategies that official Trump campaign lawyers would not. The indictment’s description of “co-conspirator 2” appears to match that of John Eastman, an attorney and former law …

The Daily Beast reports: A highlight of Tuesday’s proceedings was Eastman’s attempt to call a man named Joseph Fried as an expert witness. Fried is a public accountant who wrote an eBook that questioned the legitimacy of Biden’s presidential win. California State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland saw right through the strange request. “I don’t see how Mr. Fried is …

The Associated Press reports: An effort to disbar conservative attorney John Eastman, who devised ways to keep Trump in the White House after his defeat in the 2020 election, will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles. Eastman is expected to spend the day testifying before the State Bar of California in a proceeding that could result in him losing his license …

“They went ahead and filed notice of disciplinary charges in January. And now the trial begins on Tuesday. It’s a full-fledged trial and they’re pulling out all the stops. “It’s really an extraordinary amount of taxpayers resources that are going in to try and disprove claims that I made, or more importantly that I had ‘no basis’ whatsoever for making …

Just in via press release: The State Bar of California’s Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona announced today the filing of a Notice of Disciplinary Charges (NDC) against attorney John Charles Eastman (State Bar No. 193726). The 11 charges arise from allegations that Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Trump in executing a strategy, …

CNN reports:   Federal investigators have obtained access to several email accounts, a draft autobiography and other writings in which Republican Rep. Scott Perry, Donald Trump elections attorney John Eastman, and former Justice Department officials Jeffrey Clark and Ken Klukowski discussed the 2020 election, according to a newly released order in the DC District Court. The order unsealed Thursday indicates …

CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is considering criminal referrals for at least four individuals in addition to former President Donald Trump, multiple sources told CNN. The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right wing lawyer John Eastman, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and Trump’s …

The New York Times reports: A conservative lawyer who was an architect of a plan to keep former President Donald J. Trump in office warned in late December 2020 that if Mr. Trump falsely swore to the courts that he had specific evidence of voter fraud in Georgia, both the president and his lawyers could face prosecution. “I have no …

Politico reports: At a speech last week before prospective GOP poll workers and challengers in New Mexico, former Trump attorney John Eastman urged his allies to file complaints that could form the basis for court challenges to the upcoming midterm and presidential elections. The comments, outlined in a new audio recording obtained by POLITICO, suggest that Eastman and some other …

Politico reports: A federal judge on Friday denied an effort by John Eastman, the attorney who helped devise Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election, to reclaim his phone from the Justice Department. New Mexico-based Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert Brack ruled that Eastman had failed to show that the government’s seizure of his phone — by …

Politico reports: A week before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, attorneys spearheading Donald Trump’s last-ditch bid to remain in power emailed with disparaging jokes about their client. “A shame you are not in DC and could contribute to violation of the emoluments clause,” Trump lawyer Bruce Marks wrote in the Dec. 30 email to attorney Kenneth Chesebro, a …

Law & Crime reports: Former President Donald Trump’s post-election lawyer John Eastman is asking a federal judge in California to shield from the Jan. 6 Committee an additional 558 documents from his Chapman University email account. Eastman’s lawyers said they’ll produce 18 of the 576 documents requested by the committee, but they believe the remaining 558 are protected through previous …

CNBC reports: A lawyer who had pushed to overturn the 2020 election loss of then-President Donald Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions during an appearance Wednesday before a grand jury in Georgia, his attorneys said. John Eastman also invoked protections under attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer at least some questions he was …

The New York Times reports: John Eastman, the conservative lawyer whose plan to block congressional certification of the 2020 election failed in spectacular fashion on Jan. 6, 2021, sent an email two weeks later arguing that pro-Trump forces should sue to keep searching for the supposed election fraud he acknowledged they had failed to find. On Jan. 20, 2021, hours …