California’s highest court has allowed the Eastman disbarment
It should come as no surprise that the California high court showed attorney John Eastman no mercy:
The Golden State’s Supreme Court blessed this position when, on April 15, it denied the conservative lawyer’s petition for review of the state bar’s yearslong disciplinary jihad against him and ordered him stripped of his license to practice law.
What was the nefarious behavior that this former Supreme Court clerk, university law school dean, and public interest litigator allegedly engaged in? Effectively, in the eyes of the bar and California’s highest court, his thoughtcrime, punishable with professional destruction, was “lawyering for MAGA.”
The whole article is worth reading. Eastman has been disbarred for giving legal advice on the 2020 election with which the left disagrees, but which certainly was based on solid grounds. The left doesn’t think the right is entitled to legal representation, however – or at the very least wants to make it extremely costly and to thus deter lawyers from taking those cases. This would destroy the entire basis for the adversarial legal system, of course. I hope that SCOTUS ultimately rules against this form of lawfare, which reached its height (so far) in something called “The 65 Project.”
I’ve written about Eastman many times before; you can see a list of the post links here. The term “travesty of justice” applies. I’ve also written about The 65 Project, which was set up by leftist lawyers to disbar any lawyer on the right who worked on challenges to the 2020 election: see this post, in which I quote Alan Dershowitz thusly :
Our system of justice is based on the John Adams standard: he too was attacked for defending the British soldiers accused of the Boston Massacre, but his representation of these accused killers now serves as a symbol of the 6th Amendment right to counsel. That symbol has now been endangered by The 65 Project and others who are participating in its McCarthyite chilling of lawyers who have been asked to represent Trump and those associated with him.
In that post, I closed with this:
For decades, the left screeched about McCarthyism. They got a lot of mileage out of that, but in reality their main objection seems to have been that they were the targets rather than the ones behind the threats.
NOTE: Another post I wrote on The 65 Project can be found here.
Does the US Supreme Court have the power to overrule a state bar case like this?
Kate:
It’s very rare, but they could take a case that involves a federal or constitutional issue. The Eastman case involves the right of a person to a defense, at least IMHO, which is a broad issue rather than a state issue. I don’t know if SCOTUS would see it that way.
The progressive aspires to a species of perfected cruelty. Such nasty people, the progressives.
Even if the SC would take the case, it will cost Eastman a lot of time and money. The process is the punishment.
the Dems extended the John Adams standard to terrorists at Gitmo, recall the Levick public relations lawfare, the most white shoe law firm, were in on it, many of the judges who have gone to block every Trump policy, like Richard Leon, were all a part of that sham, we saw the sham of the two molotov throwing lawyers in 2020, they got off with a slap on the wrist, however anyone to the right of Michael Ratner, they got the lash, see the whole Proud Boys fiasco, evidence was even required, in fact it was superfluous,
“The left doesn’t think the right is entitled to legal representation, however – or at the very least wants to make it extremely costly and to thus deter lawyers from taking those cases. This would destroy the entire basis for the adversarial legal system, of course.”
As the left doesn’t think the right is entitled to legal representation, destroying the adversarial legal system is the point.
Too filled with righteous arrogance to consider even for a moment what will happen to them, after they’ve cut down all the laws…
Here’s part of what I wrote on June 19, 2023, “This is how the Left works today. They want to destroy anyone who disagrees with their progressive ideas. ….
The concern Dersh expresses is real. But its worse than that. Some state bars have enacted speech codes for lawyers. NE’s has been under consideration for over a year. I’d be a target. Routinely Dems on Twitter threaten to report me to the Bar.”
This week it happened to me. I criticized, on Facebook, the Knox County Sheriff for not being in compliance with a Nebraska statute that uses the word “shall” four times and has been the law since 1866. All Nebraska deputy sheriffs have to sign and file an oath with the County Clerk. That wasn’t done in Knox County.
The risk and downside for not complying the statute is considerable. If a murderer or drug dealer is arrested by a deputy, a motion to dismiss could be successful. This was successful for the former FBI director and current NY AG.
There are two underlying cases in Knox County. I’ve successfully, so far, stopped a $1.3 billion wind energy project in federal court. Lots of people hate me for that; including the former County Attorney.
The other underlying case involved the Sheriff’s office electronically spying on the Board of Supervisors. The then deputy County Attorney was the person who cancelled the privacy or cutoff switch in the Board’s room.
I exposed all of this wrongdoing by the Sheriff and the two lawyers in the County Attorney’s office. So the three of them filed a grievance against me with the Bar. These two lawyers are so dishonest that they wrote the grievance and didn’t sign their name to it. The Sheriff signed it.
Nebraska Dems are expressing great joy at what has happened to me because I’m a conservative. It is really off the charts. I just exposed wrongdoing by elected officials. And I’m fighting to keep 155 wind turbines out of Knox County. The landowners will get big money if this goes through.
Conservatives and liberals will never agree on anything. The Dems tried to crush Trump. The Left actively hopes Iran wins as that makes Trump look bad. This trans thing on minors was a giant Dem cause in Nebraska recently. The Dems are fighting like crazy to keep their “Blue Dot” Electoral College vote. For the Dems, not only is the personal political but it is a matter of life and death.
In their quest for power the Left doesn’t care.