Former Trump administration DOJ official Jeffrey Clark is appealing the recommendation of a disciplinary panel to suspend his law license for two years over his role assisting Trump in dealing with 2020 election irregularities. A three-member committee of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility found on August 1 that he breached broad and vague attorneys ethics rules by drafting a letter that was never sent to Georgia officials advising them of their options for handling the 2020 election problems.
In response, Clark filed a Petition for Review with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on August 7, requesting consideration of his interlocutory appeals. Interlocutory appeals are appeals conducted while other proceedings are still ongoing.
The D.C. Bar’s position has been that the question of immunity must be determined at trial — but Clark argued that immunity means he cannot be tried at all, that is why he is attempting to halt the process with interlocutory appeal.
Much of Clark’s argument comes down to three types of immunity. He believes the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States provides him with a new third type of immunity that has yet to be considered in the proceedings. America First Legal filed an amicus curiae brief in his case last month going over how that ruling also applies to Clark as Trump’s attorney and one of his officials advising him. It would provide Clark with absolute immunity.
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