D.C. Authorities Suspend Indicted Trump Ally John Eastman From Practicing As A Lawyer

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John Eastman, a legal figure associated with Donald Trump most prominently in the context of the latter’s targeting of the 2020 presidential election results, was suspended from practicing law in Washington, D.C., in connection with disciplinary proceedings in California that stemmed from his post-2020 election roles.

A California judge recently rejected a request from Eastman to go back on an earlier decision spurring a suspension in that western state, though the dispute is continuing and apparently on its way to the state Supreme Court. Eastman had been representing even infamous GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) in litigation, with his participation suddenly put under threat by the developments in his disciplinary proceedings.

A similar outcome already befell similarly situated legal figure Rudy Giuliani, who prominently joined the Trump corner’s targeting of the 2020 presidential election, crisscrossing the country to make the case directly to some of those in positions of state power. All of that, of course, failed, with 2020 election winner Joe Biden duly inaugurated as the next president of the United States and Giuliani reportedly now criminally charged — atop his disciplinary proceedings — in two states in connection to that period. The list includes Georgia and Arizona.

The latter case is the newest and apparently hinges on the state’s pro-Trump fake electors scheme after the last presidential election. Though Biden was victorious in Arizona, Trump allies in the southwestern state assembled a slate of sham electoral votes backing him anyway. Similar efforts were also seen in other states, leading so far to a total of four criminal cases. Besides the Georgia matter, that includes further proceedings against participants in Michigan and Nevada. Trump himself is charged in the Georgia case and a separate federal proceeding that relates broadly to his own role in the conspiracy theory-driven targeting of the presidential election outcome in 2020.