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MIKE DAVIS: California's highest court disgraces itself by upholding disbarment of John Eastman

Constitutional scholar Eastman committed no crime and Jeff Clark faces a similar fight in DC

By Mike Davis Fox News

Published April 16, 2026 8:59am EDT

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On Wednesday, the leftist California Supreme Court disbarred brilliant constitutional scholar John Eastman. His mortal sin was zealous representation of a client—President Donald Trump—during the dispute over the 2020 election. Eastman committed no crime; indeed, his sham Georgia indictment was dropped after disgraced Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ disqualification from the case. What the California Supreme Court did was a legal disgrace that occurs generally in banana republics, not in the United States.

John Eastman, former lawyer to Donald Trump, speaks to members of the media after leaving the State Bar Court of California in Los Angeles on June 20, 2023. (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The 2020 election was razor-close. If approximately 20,000 votes in three states—Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—had switched, President Trump would have defeated Joe Biden, according to official results. The problem with the election, of course, involved the unprecedented rewriting of election laws by........

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