In 2020, when he was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado’s Benson Center for Western Conservative Thought, John Eastman speculated in a Newsweek op-ed that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris might not be eligible to serve as vice president because her parents were possibly temporary visitors at the time of Harris’ birth.
Trump attorney John Eastman used to have licenses to practice law in California and Washington, D.C. Both of those have been suspended following a ruling by a California Bar Court judge that found him culpable of all ten disciplinary charges and recommended he be disbarred. Eastman is appealing that ruling, but in the meantime, a federal judge in the District of Columbia, where he is also licensed, forbade him from practicing law until the resolution of his appeal.
In a short video released this morning, Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dave Williams and insurrectionist attorney John Eastman teamed up to explain why they need loyal Colorado conservatives to pony up $50,000. The money won’t support the party’s political activity, but rather will pay Eastman to continue his attempt to overturn the state’s open primary process, which was passed by voters eight years ago. The QR code displayed on the screen takes viewers not to the state party’s website, but to Eastman’s own Claremont Institute.
Former Trump attorney John Eastman, who’s facing charges in Georgia relating to a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, is scheduled to appear in federal district court in Colorado Jan. 23 — not as a defendant but as a lawyer representing the Colorado Republican Party, according to Randy Corporon, the co-counsel in the case.
Last month law professor Todd Zywicki spoke at the Steamboat Institute’s Freedom Conference, an annual gathering of conservative pundits and professionals that has veered further right in recent years. David O. Williams previewed the event for the Colorado Times Recorder.
Even if he loses his law license due to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, former Trump attorney John Eastman will continue working on Colorado Republican Party’s case to stop unaffiliated voters from participating in primary elections, according to a lead attorney on the case.
Former Trump lawyer John Eastman, who’s facing possible dismissal from the California bar, says former Vice President Mike Pence is making a “potted plant pitch for the presidency” in which Pence claims to have been unable to stop Biden from becoming president when, in fact, according to Eastman, Pence was “in a position to try and do something about the illegality that even he acknowledged that occurred in the election.”
Former Trump attorney John Eastman, author of the infamous coup memo, is currently on trial before the California State Bar which seeks to have him disbarred for numerous ethical violations related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
By the Editorial Board of the Orange County Register
UPDATE: The New York Times reports that Boris Epshteyn is likely the “Co-conspirator #6,” named in Trump’s indictment for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Assuming the report is accurate, Epshteyn will be the second Co-conspirator with a Colorado connection. Former CU Boulder Benson Center Visiting Professor John Eastman confirmed via his attorney that he is Co-conspirator #2. Eastman is currently representing the Colorado GOP in a lawsuit to overturn the state’s open primary law.
