Posted on 03/28/2024 8:55:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Corrupt. Totalitarian. Par for the course.
I was privileged to listen to John Eastman speak twice and lay out his case at David Horowitz Freedom Center events, including at the Restoration Weekend in New Orleans and at an event in Los Angeles. Both times, Eastman spoke compellingly about what he had gone through in the lawfare campaign to destroy him for representing Trump.
That includes the California bar’s effort to disbar him. An effort that has at least temporarily succeeded.
A California judge on Wednesday recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
State Bar Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip Eastman’s license to practice law in the state over “false and misleading statements” about purported election fraud and his role in “provoking” the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
This is the work of an abusive kangaroo court and a political appointee.
Yvette Roland, who had specialized in employment law, as a president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, had been appointed to the State Bar Court by former Speaker Toni Atkins, whose main claim to fame was being the first lesbian in that position, and who tried to climb to the governorship on her record of Trump bashing.
Judge Yvette Roland donated to Kamala Harris in the past, as well as Obama. She’s a partisan Democrat handing down a partisan ruling that penalizes political opposition.
It’s par for the course in California, which has become a totalitarian one-party state, not so...
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Eastman, and any other conservative attorney, needs to move out of California and other blue states and move to a state that does not persecute attorneys based upon their political views. Lawyers who have been disbarred in one state can continue their practice in other states, unless or until disbarment is also imposed in those states.
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