Jeffrey Clark, an attorney who served at high levels of the Department of Justice under former President Donald Trump, including briefly as acting attorney general, has been indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis along with Trump in the racketeering case over the 2020 election challenges, and charged with dishonesty and attempting to interfere with the administration of justice by the District of Columbia Bar. The charges in both relate to a memo Clark drafted about 2020 election irregularities in Georgia addressed to Georgia officials that was never sent. His bar disciplinary trial is scheduled for January, but he has attempted to postpone it until after the criminal proceedings are finished.
On Thursday, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility held a hearing to consider his deferral request. The court is expected to issue a ruling shortly.
The draft letter Clark (pictured above) is being investigated for, known as the “Proof of Concept” letter, was written on December 28, 2020, and addressed to the Georgia Governor, Speaker of the House, and President Pro Tempore of the Senate. According to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel’s (ODC) charges against Clark, “It recommended that the Governor call the Georgia legislature into special session and argued that if the Governor refused to do so, the legislature had the authority to convene such a session on its own initiative.”
In the Disciplinary Counsel’s Response to Renewed Request for Deferral arguing against delaying the bar trial, the bar’s attorneys said, “The only issue in the disciplinary case is whether Respondent had any factual support at the operative time — essentially between December 28, 2020 and January 2, 2021 — to support his claim that the Department of Justice had identified significant concerns that might have affected the results of the election in Georgia.”
The brief accused Clark of already being guilty.
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