A California judge has upheld a suspension from practicing law for John Eastman, a Trump ally who is being challenged over his evident involvement in advancing pro-Trump schemes after the last presidential election targeting its outcome, meaning Joe Biden’s victory.
Eastman was also criminally charged in two states — Georgia and, more recently, Arizona — over similar issues.
An earlier ruling from Judge Yvette Roland in California in disciplinary proceedings against Eastman “triggered an automatic suspension of Eastman’s license,” reported POLITICO, and she declined the prospect of going back on that. “Eastman’s motion fails to demonstrate that he no longer presents a threat to the public,” she said, as highlighted by the same news outlet this week.
Eastman sounds like he’s in a bit of professional limbo, as he’s reportedly trying to keep the prospect of his removal from proceedings in which he was actively involved at bay while he keeps fighting recent developments in Roland’s case. In one of those other cases at issue, Eastman was actually representing infamous GOP Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) in a dispute over previously tanked plans for holding a rally in California, though the list continues.
There are still appeal options that Eastman is pursuing, at least in the context of Roland’s earlier ruling that sparked the suspension as proceedings continue. Elsewhere, Trump allies Jeffrey Clark and Rudy Giuliani have also faced disciplinary proceedings in connection to their 2020 roles, with Giuliani suspended from practicing law in both New York and Washington, D.C., quite awhile ago at this point. He and Clark were also charged in the same Georgia case as above, and reportedly, Giuliani was also charged alongside Eastman in Arizona, a case that focuses on the state’s sham elector scheme backing Trump after the 2020 election.
