LOS ANGELES — A lawyer representing attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, spotlighted Wednesday legal debates surrounding the tallying electoral votes in a defense of Eastman’s advice to the former president that could get him disbarred.

Eastman, a former law school dean, is facing 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having then-Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.

Prosecutors have depicted Eastman as a rogue attorney and Trump enabler who fabricated a baseless theory and made false claims of fraud in hopes of overturning the results of the election.

In the second day of proceedings, defense attorney Randall A. Miller highlighted scholarly debates about the reach of the vice president’s authority in the electoral process, in an apparent attempt to counter the argument that Eastman was making groundless claims in a last-minute bid to salvage the Trump presidency.

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Among his points, Miller pointed to a Dec. 8, 2020 memo written by Pence’s counsel at the time, Gregory Jacob, who testified through much of the day. In the memo, Jacob tells Pence that there is disagreement about whether Pence’s role is ministerial or whether the vice president...

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