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A close look at the California bar’s charges against John Eastman reveals how professional discipline can help hold lawyers responsible for their role in Jan. 6—and how it can’t.
The Office of Chief Trial Counsel of the California State Bar intends to seek Eastman’s disbarment before the State Bar Court.
How can it be that the most devastating legal opinion ever written about an American president may not trigger a criminal investigation?
The bar review of John Eastman’s conduct in the run-up to and aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection has begun, and how the case unfolds is uncertain. Bar discipline is an instrument ill-suited to address the gravity of the allegations against Eastman.