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If SCOTUS Values Free Speech, It Will Stop California’s Persecution Of John Eastman

In the eyes of the bar and California court, Eastman’s thoughtcrime, punishable with professional destruction, was ‘lawyering for MAGA.’

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Are conservatives entitled to vigorous legal defense in America? Or should they be condemned to second-class status in civil society and court, rendered bereft of advice and counsel because capable lawyers abandon the field, fearing ruin should they represent the right?

In a tyrannical travesty of “justice,” California appears to be trying to usher in the latter, dystopic world by disbarring constitutional scholar John Eastman. The Golden State’s Supreme Court blessed this position when, on April 15, it denied the conservative lawyer’s petition for review of the state bar’s yearslong disciplinary jihad against him and ordered him stripped of his license to practice law.

What was the nefarious behavior that this former Supreme Court clerk, university law school dean, and public interest litigator allegedly engaged in? Effectively, in the eyes of the bar and California’s highest court, his thoughtcrime, punishable with professional destruction, was “lawyering for MAGA.”

Eastman faithfully represented President Donald Trump and his campaign in connection with his 2020 election challenge and vigorously advocated for the president’s positions in the court of law and public opinion. The attorney compiled substantial evidence that the election was marked with fraud and irregularities, and that non-legislative officials had effectively made new election law, further delegitimizing the contest. He evaluated alternatives on behalf of the president for remedying those deficiencies through a careful study of legal history, theory, and precedent. And he presented them to the president’s team, drafted court filings in defense of the president’s positions, and argued for the president’s positions in media and before the president’s supporters.

California, apparently working hand-in-glove with a prominent lawfare co-conspirator, transformed these actions into a sinister plot to steal the 2020 election. The caper........

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