California Bar Disciplinary Judge Yvette Roland disbarred Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman.
She issued a 128-page opinion on March 27, almost four months after she’d received the parties’ closing written statements.
Eastman posted an article on his Substack about the ruling, stating that he would follow up with more articles analyzing the decision in depth. He said Roland, who donated to Democrats while serving on the bench, disbarred him since she claimed he “made misrepresentations of hotly disputed facts and unresolved questions of constitutional law in my representation of former President Trump and his challenges to the illegality of the 2020 election, and because I also made those claims in public speeches, writings, and media appearances in which I highlighted illegality in the election (all of which is constitutionally protected speech).”
A nationally renowned constitutional expert told The Arizona Sun Times that he or she believed Roland took so long because she was receiving assistance writing the opinion from progressive legal activists. The expert pointed out that Roland frequently appeared confused during the trial, sometimes not sure what part of the trial they were at and unaware of key facts such as that Congress amended the Electoral Count Act in 2022 to prohibit the vice president from having substantial authority to accept or reject electoral slates.
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