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28 Nov 2023, 11:02 am by Tom Joscelyn
” While Chesebro’s co-defendant, John Eastman (a lawyer who worked for Trump and who has also been indicted in Fulton County), has received widespread scrutiny for his role in this part of the conspiracy, Chesebro advocated the same allegedly unlawful position. [read post]
8 Dec 2022, 8:56 am by Kate Shaw
The “Eastman theory” contends that state legislatures even have the authority to discard the popular vote and instead select presidential electors outright, even after an election has been held. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 9:22 am by Michael C. Dorf
My view--shared by just about every reputable constitutional scholar--is that Article II and the Eleventh Amendment already make the VP's role ceremonial, but if I'm wrong and the likes of John Eastman are right that the Constitution gives the VP the power to make substantive judgments, then it's not clear how Congress could by statute take that power away. [read post]
9 Mar 2022, 1:01 pm by Katherine Pompilio
District Court for the Central District of California that former President Trump and lawyer John Eastman were directly involved in a plan to create and execute a fraud on the American public as part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, reports the New York Times. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 12:16 pm by Katherine Pompilio
” The select committee released its filings as part of a brief in its case against John Eastman, a former Trump lawyer who is refusing to turn over his emails at the request of the panel. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 9:07 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  It is, after all, a big reason that there is so much uncertainty about what happens when competing slates are sent to the Electoral College from the same state; and the miasma that the ECA creates was what Donald Trump's lawyers used to try to pull off the bloodless part of their coup plot.Even though the ECA is terrible, I should state clearly that there is simply no way that that law -- even in its disastrously muddled current form -- justifies what John Eastman said… [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 3:32 am by Michael C. Dorf
With respect to those allegations, it's possible to think that the likes of Ken Chesebro and John Eastman figured that their confidential memos--even though advising Trump on how to abuse the machinery of government to pull off a coup--would never see the light of day. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 4:30 am by Eric Segall
We’ve never seen anything like the attempt to use the John Eastman memo to invalidate an election. [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 4:39 am by Florian Mueller
In that post I published two slides from a "strategic rationale" document provided by Microsoft to the press and thankfully published by AllThingsD's John Paczkowski. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
., that the factual and/or legal claims underlying the scheme by co-conspirators John Eastman and Ken Chesebro to impede Congressional certification of Joe Biden's victory were false--and that therefore Trump knowingly sought to obstruct an official proceeding, as charged in the second and third counts of the indictment.Other statements by Trump that are listed in the indictment also indicate his guilty state of mind. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 5:55 am by Helen White
John Eastman, a bevy of beltway think tanks, and a smattering of red state Attorneys General and other state elected officials, none of whom oversee elections. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 5:33 am by jonathanturley
While castigating Trump counsel John Eastman for telling legislators to “just do it,” the same message seems to be coming from members and legal experts on some cable programs. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 4:31 am by Emma Snell
Conservative attorney John Eastman and one-time national security adviser Michael Flynn were among those whose transcripts were released. [read post]
15 Sep 2022, 4:24 am by Emma Snell
  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is seeking another batch of emails sent by attorney John Eastman – an architect of former President Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election. [read post]
11 Aug 2021, 5:01 am by Daniel Kreiss, Madhavi Reddi
There are numerous examples of this, perhaps clearest in the repeated claims of right-wing figures such as John Eastman, a Chapman University law professor, who erroneously argued that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment would require one or both of Harris’s immigrant parents to be U.S. citizens for her to be a natural-born citizen—and thus eligible to be vice president. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 11:44 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  After all, Donald Trump's lawyer John Eastman argued that parts of the ECA are unconstitutional and that the other parts could be used to justify the pre-violence part of the Trumpists' planned coup.Fortunately, that coup attempt failed -- barely -- and the ECA's many holes did not result in a constitutional crisis and a collapse of the American experiment. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 5:01 am by Michael Ramsey
  But recently some legal commentators, including Chapman University law professor John Eastman and Claremont Institute scholar (and former presidential advisor) Michael Anton, have argued that such children are not born "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States, and thus aren't included by the citizenship clause. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 11:48 am by Content Aitken Access
Wylie served as Chapman University’s Chair of the Board of Trustees from 2016-2020 and presided over many pressing issues, including the departure of John Eastman and the diversity of its student body. [read post]