Intermittently since June, John Eastman has appeared in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as lawyers for the California Bar build the case that he is unfit to practice law.
Eastman, the former dean of Chapman University’s law school and advisor to former President Trump, is accused of ethics violations for peddling false claims that fraud cost Trump the presidency.
Eastman maintains that he had a good-faith basis to doubt the results of the 2020 election. The man Eastman called as his first witness last week, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, has asserted the election was stolen, though his own turmoil-racked inquiry turned up no proof that fraud tilted the election to Joe Biden.
The witness, Michael Gableman, admitted he had no experience with election law when the Republican leader of the Wisconsin Assembly picked him in 2021 to lead a taxpayer-funded investigation into the election. Gableman has also admitted that he did not have “any understanding of how elections work.”
His 14-month inquiry turned into a debacle, costing taxpayers more than $1 million and drawing bipartisan derision. The report he produced alleged illegalities in the Wisconsin election, though Biden’s 21,000-vote victory in the state has withstood multiple court challenges, a recount and a nonpartisan audit.
Aug. 22, 2023
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