Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar, John Eastman, filed an opening brief with the California State Bar Court last week appealing his disbarment for assisting Donald Trump with legal representation regarding the 2020 election illegalities. California Disciplinary Judge Yvette Roland formed her opinion by determining that Eastman’s legal opinions were wrong and that there was no election wrongdoing.
The brief said, “[T]his prosecution should never have taken place. It is, rather, a manifestation of George Orwell’s dystopic depiction of authoritarianism — statements by the Government, no matter how demonstrably false or suspect, must be accepted as truth.”
Eastman, whose resume is over 100 pages long, said, “[I]t must be emphasized that the Hearing Department is the first court in the nation’s history to consider the constitutional question of the Vice President’s authority to resolve disputes over electoral votes. This is a novel and unresolved issue, directly derived from our nation’s highest law, and arguably a non-justiciable political question not subject to judicial review. Nevertheless, the Hearing Department of the State Bar Court of California found itself qualified to authoritatively resolve this issue.”
Roland, who donated to Democrats while serving on the bench, is referred to as the “Hearing Department” in Eastman’s brief.
The brief went on, “[T]he Hearing Department did not resolve ‘uncertain’ claims of law in Dr. Eastman’s favor, but simply drew her own legal conclusions about contested and open questions of constitutional law that OCTC itself has described as ‘novel’ questions.”
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