Presidential-elect Donald Trump’s former DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, is appealing a recommendation to suspend his law license over his work for then-President Trump addressing 2020 election irregularities. A three-member committee of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility found on August 1 that he breached 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.
Clark first 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 new brief appealing the recommendation was filed with the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Board on Professional Responsibility (BPR) on October 28. That agency will determine whether to accept the committee’s disciplinary recommendation.
The brief began, “Stripped to its essentials and shorn of the partisan politics that drives it, this case is about the duty that attorneys owe to a client who rejects their advice because he questions their diligence, competence, and loyalty.”
It explained, “The very first paragraph of ODC’s Opening Brief concedes that, at all times relevant to ODC’s Charges, President Donald J. Trump sought, and received in his official capacity, legal advice and counsel about alleged 2020 federal election ‘irregularities’ from at least three attorneys employed by United States DOJ: Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and Respondent, Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey B. Clark.”
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