Disbarring Trump Attorney John Eastman
An article in National Public Radio begins:
A California judge has formally recommended that attorney John Eastman lose his law license for his role in Donald Trump’s legal effort to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.
Eastman, a prominent figure in conservative legal circles and a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, played a key role in developing and backing a plan for states to send pro-Trump slates of electors to Congress and have then-Vice President Mike Pence unilaterally block or delay the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.
“Eastman’s wrongdoing constitutes exceptionally serious ethical violations warranting severe professional discipline,” wrote California State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland in her decision. “Eastman made multiple patently false and misleading statements in court filings, in public remarks heard by countless Americans and to others regarding the conduct of the 2020 presidential election and Vice President Pence’s authority to refuse to count or delay counting properly certified slates of electoral votes on January 6, 2021.”
Eastman is one of 19 co-defendants in the Fulton Country, GA RICO case that alleges a massive conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 president election in that jurisdiction. Apparently, the judge who wrote the decision above sees no reason to delay the disbarment measure until after the results of that case.
Sounds fine. Removing this criminal from public life asap seems like an excellent idea.
The meme here might cause Trump’s base to question their support.
It wasn’t that long ago that America’s leaders were responsible and honest people, acting according to an understanding of what it means to make this nation great.
The problem, of course, is that almost half of the U.S. electorate believes the Big Lie, i.e., that the national security apparatus is a threat to Trump, the rightful president of the United States.
It’s interesting to watch the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, through its media arm The Daily Signal, use PR to forward its messages. They start off with the same framework that we all use:
I told my son the other day that, if Trump is re-elected, a significant number of Americans will be leaving the country, simply because they can’t stand to be led by a criminal sociopath, and all the degrading baggage than accompanies that.
I remember attending a trade show at which a variety of new-age food items were being introduced. I ran across the vendor of a new orange soda that he marketed as “all-natural.”
The meat-eater pictured here is one of a large number of hateful morons who make up the American electorate.
Immediately after my first business meeting in Paris, I spent some time walking around the City of Lights, trying not to be too conspicuous as the dreaded American tourist.
Other than common sense, there is nothing that prohibits investors from pumping cash into companies like Flower Turbines, that one day, owners claim, will build and sell devices that capture small amounts of wind energy.
