Oct 02, 2021 · The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office John Eastman was a little-known but respected conservative lawyer. Then he became influential with Donald Trump — and counseled him on...
Oct 03, 2021 · The lawyer behind the memo on how Trump could stay in office. “It started with the president talking about how some of the legal scholarship that had been done, saying under the 12th Amendment, the vice president has the ultimate authority to reject invalid electoral votes and he asked me what I thought about it,” Mr. Eastman said. “It’s a little bit more complicated than …
The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office Posted By: Keana Cassandra Bagano October 4, 2021 John Eastman’s path from little-known academic to one of the most influential voices in Donald Trump’s ear in the final days of his presidency began in mid-2019 on Trump’s favorite platform: television.
Oct 03, 2021 · Mr. Eastman’s role in Mr. Trump’s efforts to remain in power began the weekend after the election in Philadelphia, where Mr. Eastman had traveled for an academic conference. At a nearby hotel, Mr. Trump’s closest aides, including Corey Lewandowski, were putting together a legal brief to challenge the results in Pennsylvania.
Further, Democratic New York state lawmaker Brad Hoylman has filed a complaint with a state appellate court seeking Giuliani’s disbarment over his “complicity” in the Capitol riot and “flagrant” violations of ethical standards of conduct.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, could be included in a federal investigation and is facing a disbarment complaint. Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to Donald Trump, speaks at a rally on 6 January before the march on the Capitol.
Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who led Trump’s conspiratorial drive to overturn the election and gave an incendiary talk to the Trump rally right before the march on the Capitol began, could be ensnared in a federal investigation of the attack and is facing a disbarment complaint in New York. Pro-Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Cleta ...