President Donald Trump’s former attorney, top constitutional legal scholar John Eastman, filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court last week, appealing his disbarment by the California Supreme Court. Eastman was stripped of his law license for his work assisting Trump in challenging election anomalies and wrongdoing in the 2020 election. The California Supreme Court upheld the disbarment order of the State Bar of California’s disciplinary judge — who donated to Democrats as a sitting judge — finding that Eastman supposedly made false statements about election wrongdoing.

Eastman, whose resume is over 100 pages long, merely drafted a memo for Trump listing various outcomes dealing with the alternate slates of electors from the battleground states. In some of his scenarios, then-Vice President Mike Pence would not accept the alternate slates, resulting in Joe Biden becoming president. Eastman also filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Trump in the election lawsuit Texas v. Pennsylvania. He made public statements, such as stating that “dead people” voted. Official reports confirm that ballots were cast in the name of deceased people.

California Bar disciplinary judge Yvette Roland found Eastman culpable on the usual vague, broad ethics rules used to target conservatives: dishonesty, fraud and moral turpitude. These words can easily be used to describe any actions someone dislikes. The brief stated, “Eastman’s constitutional arguments does not transform legal advice into moral turpitude just because it departs from a preferred set of ‘experts,’” and “[b]road labels like ‘fraud,’ ‘defraud,’ ‘professional misconduct,’ and........

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