The disbarment trial of Donald Trump’s former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark began last week, featuring testimony from several prominent statisticians. Clark, who is also a defendant in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s RICO prosecution, is being disciplined for drafting a letter that was never sent to Georgia officials after the 2020 election advising them of their options for dealing with the election illegalities. The trial is expected to last two weeks, into this coming week.
On Thursday, Hamilton Fox, the D.C. Bar’s attorney who has aggressively gone after other Trump attorneys, attempted to keep most of Clark’s witnesses from testifying. He described them as “sketchy witnesses” who want to talk about “supposed irregularities.” However, one of the witnesses who ultimately testified on Thursday had been allowed to testify in the similar disbarment trial of Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman last year.
Fox objected to E. Donald Elliott, a Yale Law Professor, from testifying because he said Elliott was going to testify about how he thought Clark did not violate ethics rules, claiming it wasn’t relevant.
Merrill Hirsh, chair of the disciplinary panel hearing the case – which also features a lawyer member and a member of the public – expressed his skepticism that there was a reason to want to look into election irregularities in Georgia’s 2020 election. Clark’s attorney Harry MacDougald responded and said much of Clark’s justification was based on the Ligon Report, which cited chain of custody of ballot issues, absentee ballot problems, and more. The Ligon Report was a transcript from a Georgia Senate hearing held on December 3, 2020, named after Judiciary Committee Chairman William Ligon.
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