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John Eastman Asks SCOTUS To Protect Speech Rights Of Lawyers Doing Their Jobs

If conservative lawyers lose their free speech rights, our constitutional system of law is doomed. We’re fighting to prevent that.

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Shortly after our personal representation of President Trump in his impeachment acquittal before the U.S. Senate, we warned about what we saw coming. The left was preparing to go after conservative lawyers. Now that unfortunately has come to pass, and it’s exactly what the American Center for Law and Justice is preparing to challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ACLJ is representing Professor John Eastman, a former Trump attorney, in a forthcoming cert petition to the Supreme Court of the United States challenging his disbarment by the state of California.

In the wake of the 2020 election, Eastman, a constitutional scholar and former law school dean, represented President Trump in a number of election-related challenges involving issues upon which no court had weighed in. He was thereafter disbarred by the California Bar following disciplinary proceedings arising from his legal advice, public advocacy, court filings, and speeches regarding the 2020 presidential election. That decision was erroneously upheld by the California Supreme Court.

No court sanctioned Eastman for any of his legal positions, yet the California Bar disbarred him anyway. In essence, Eastman was disbarred for exercising his free speech rights and providing legal counsel to President Trump in the aftermath of the election.

If a state can disbar a conservative attorney for his advocacy — his free speech........

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