John Eastman disbarment hearing: Election expert disputes Eastman’s famous Jan. 6 memo
After surrendering to authorities in Atlanta on Tuesday, attorney John Eastman’s disbarment trial resumed Thursday in California. After surrendering to authorities in Atlanta on Tuesday, attorney John Eastman’s disbarment trial resumed Thursday in California, where prosecutors presented the six-page memo Eastman wrote that proposed unilateral action that then-Vice President Mike Pence could allegedly take during the certification of electoral votes on Jan.6 Duncan Carling, trial counsel for the California State Bar, said that Eastman “claimed there is historical precedent in early American history” to justify his legal theories regarding the 2020 election. The prosecutor’s witness, Matthew Seligman, a lawyer and Stanford expert on elections, testified that “there is no historical precedent” where the President of the Senate can postpone the electoral count. John Eastman, former lawyer to Donald Trump, speaks to the members of the media after leaving the State Bar Court of California...