Eastman: he devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power, now he is on trial.

[Coyote]

Oh, then 10,546.

You were closer with the first one…

 

[miketx]

You were closer with the first one…

6,345?

 

[Coyote]

6,345?

Well…I ate about a thousand….so….yes, close enough.

 

[lennypartiv]

John Eastman faces disbarment proceedings in California over effort to reverse 2020 election

Eastman, Donald Trump's former lawyer, faces disciplinary charges alleging engagement in a plot to push a far-fetched legal strategy arguing that then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

www.nbcnews.com

Another victim of the trump insurrection attempt.

More persecution by the left.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

More persecution by the left.

Trump will be punished enough for what he did. But he will be punished until he screams and then punished more.

 

[whitehall]

Somebody named Kyle Cheney's opinion? WTF? Of course the desperate Banana Republic DOJ will threaten John Eastman with prison. That's what they do.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Eastman will not longer be a lawyer, at the very least, when this is over, and may well be in prison.

 

[surada]

Does the Biden Crime Family concern you at all Coyote, or do you believe all the evidence against them is made up?

Your accusations are cheap and baseless.

 

[Independentthinker]

This is how close we got to a REAL coup attempt. Forget Nixon & Co, who are choir boys compared to the Trump political machine. This trial is kind of flying under the radar, with all the noise over Trump’s own trial, but is every bit as important in what may end up coming to light.

He devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power. Now he’s on the verge of being disbarred.

The trial of John Eastman may feature testimony from key participants in Jan. 6 who have rarely spoken publicly.

www.politico.com

“It is no overstatement that democracy stood on the precipice. Had Vice President Pence followed [Eastman’s] baseless advice … the country would have plunged into a ‘profound constitutional crisis,’” writes Duncan Carling of the California State Bar’s office of trial counsel in a pretrial brief. “[Eastman] and Trump’s plan violated our Nation’s most fundamental commitments to the rule of law and the orderly transition of power. And it rested upon transparently false claims of election fraud that continue to harm our democracy to this day.”

Eastman spent the final weeks of the Trump administration stoking false claims of election fraud in order to put pressure on GOP-led state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of presidential electors. In Eastman’s view, those alternate slates would form the basis of a dispute that only Pence could resolve Jan. 6, when he presided over the joint session of Congress to count electoral votes and finalize the results of the election.

But no state legislatures agreed to appoint those alternate electors. Instead, in five states, groups of pro-Trump activists signed false documents claiming to be legitimate presidential electors — but without the backing of their state governments, which had certified the results in favor of Biden. Eastman would ultimately change tack, arguing that the false electors presented enough of a controversy for Pence to decide which ones to count — or at the very least refuse to count Biden’s votes and call for a delay in finalizing the election to permit those GOP-run states to revisit the outcome.

Jacob and Pence fiercely rejected that strategy, which they contended would require violating several provisions of longstanding election law with no credible evidence to support reversing the outcome.

But Eastman, undeterred, fought with Jacob even as rioters — infuriated by Pence’s refusal to acquiesce to Trump’s pressure — ransacked the Capitol. Jacob testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about his interactions with Eastman, even as the riot raged, and his email correspondence with Eastman from that day formed some of the most compelling evidence about Eastman’s efforts. Jacob has also testified to a federal grand jury in Washington.

Fringe legal theory means he did nothing wrong.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Fringe legal theory means he did nothing wrong.

He did when he knew he had lost and still tried to overthrow the election results.

 

[Independentthinker]

He did when he knew he had lost and still tried to overthrow the election results.

Ummmmmmmmm, Congress changed the electoral vote count act far after that. Why did they change it if before the changed law, it was too vague? Vague means you can't prosecute for something that was so vague the law had to be changed so that it wasn't vague anymore.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

If Independentthinker is going to be Trump's lawyer, Orange Dude will swing from the gallows.

 

[surada]

This is how close we got to a REAL coup attempt. Forget Nixon & Co, who are choir boys compared to the Trump political machine. This trial is kind of flying under the radar, with all the noise over Trump’s own trial, but is every bit as important in what may end up coming to light.

He devised a fringe legal theory to try to keep Trump in power. Now he’s on the verge of being disbarred.

The trial of John Eastman may feature testimony from key participants in Jan. 6 who have rarely spoken publicly.

www.politico.com

“It is no overstatement that democracy stood on the precipice. Had Vice President Pence followed [Eastman’s] baseless advice … the country would have plunged into a ‘profound constitutional crisis,’” writes Duncan Carling of the California State Bar’s office of trial counsel in a pretrial brief. “[Eastman] and Trump’s plan violated our Nation’s most fundamental commitments to the rule of law and the orderly transition of power. And it rested upon transparently false claims of election fraud that continue to harm our democracy to this day.”

Eastman spent the final weeks of the Trump administration stoking false claims of election fraud in order to put pressure on GOP-led state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of presidential electors. In Eastman’s view, those alternate slates would form the basis of a dispute that only Pence could resolve Jan. 6, when he presided over the joint session of Congress to count electoral votes and finalize the results of the election.

But no state legislatures agreed to appoint those alternate electors. Instead, in five states, groups of pro-Trump activists signed false documents claiming to be legitimate presidential electors — but without the backing of their state governments, which had certified the results in favor of Biden. Eastman would ultimately change tack, arguing that the false electors presented enough of a controversy for Pence to decide which ones to count — or at the very least refuse to count Biden’s votes and call for a delay in finalizing the election to permit those GOP-run states to revisit the outcome.

Jacob and Pence fiercely rejected that strategy, which they contended would require violating several provisions of longstanding election law with no credible evidence to support reversing the outcome.

But Eastman, undeterred, fought with Jacob even as rioters — infuriated by Pence’s refusal to acquiesce to Trump’s pressure — ransacked the Capitol. Jacob testified to the Jan. 6 select committee about his interactions with Eastman, even as the riot raged, and his email correspondence with Eastman from that day formed some of the most compelling evidence about Eastman’s efforts. Jacob has also testified to a federal grand jury in Washington.

The California Bar doesn't think much of Eastman either. Trump goes with losers every time.

The State Bar of California

Protecting the public & enhancing the administration of justice.

www.calbar.ca.gov

 

[lennypartiv]

He did when he knew he had lost and still tried to overthrow the election results.

He tried to stop the steal.

 

[Winco]

Does the Biden Crime Family concern you at all Coyote, or do you believe all the evidence against them is made up?

It would be nice if they proved one Winnie. BTW, How about all of those Biden crimes? You seem to be avoiding them--even when they are the same as what you are accusing Trump of. Take off the blinders moron.

Looks like they, Jack Smith and legal team, are about to prove trump committed crimes. Let the system play out, ya moron.
Listen moron, you can prosecute Biden once he leaves office, this is a well established FACT. Why are you so ignorant to these facts, ya moron.

Do I care if the DOJ prosecutes biden IF there is factual evidence...NOPE, bring it to court and let biden defend himself.

I dare you to say the exact same thing about trump.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

No steal, only MAGA squeal

 

[MarathonMike]

Your accusations are cheap and baseless.

Bank records of tens of millions of dollars, documented meetings, phone calls with representatives of hostile nations are what you call baseless? But anonymous whistleblowers who witnessed NOTHING are acceptable. Yeah that is how twisted all of you Trump haters are.

 

[MarathonMike]

Looks like they, Jack Smith and legal team, are about to prove trump committed crimes. Let the system play out, ya moron.
Listen moron, you can prosecute Biden once he leaves office, this is a well established FACT. Why are you so ignorant to these facts, ya moron.

Do I care if the DOJ prosecutes biden IF there is factual evidence...NOPE, bring it to court and let biden defend himself.

I dare you to say the exact same thing about trump.

If I'm a moron, that puts you somewhere around plankton.

 

[Concerned American]

about to prove trump committed crimes.

Seems I've heard that one before. Didn't Schiff say he was going to prove..., Piglosi, Nadler, Schumer? Too bad Trumps colon is whistle clean as they've investigated it with a microscope. Biden otoh, not so much--but its coming. LMAO, nice try Winnie, you're not indoctrinating middle schoolers here.

you can prosecute Biden once he leaves office

Biden can be investigated while in office. I must say the DNC exercised a stroke of genius when they installed Biden with Kameltoe as VP. No one in their right mind would impeach Biden with the knowledge that Kameltoe would take the reins.

 

[Winco]

Biden can be investigated while in office. I must say the DNC exercised a stroke of genius when they installed Biden with Kameltoe as VP. No one in their right mind would impeach Biden with the knowledge that Kameltoe would take the reins.

Did I say "investigate"? Nope.
I said Prosecute.

you can prosecute Biden once he leaves office, this is a well established FACT

You should know and understand the difference.
You look foolish......again.