Disbarred for Defending Trump: ACLJ Takes the Fight to the Supreme Court
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 (ACLJ) 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, Professor Eastman, a constitutional scholar and former law school dean, represented President Trump in a number of election-related challenges involving issues of first impression 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 Professor Eastman for any of his legal positions, yet the California Bar disbarred him anyway. In essence, Professor........
