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12 Aug 2023, 4:05 pm by lennyesq
Amid the swarm of bold-faced public figures who have dominated the public narrative around Jan. 6 — not only Trump but Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman — Chesebro has stayed mostly under the radar. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Like the Torture Memos, Chesebro's and Eastman's memos offer extremely tendentious views of the law as though they were much more plausible than they are in the service of justifying a pre-determined course of conduct.Indeed, in at least one respect the Chesebro and Eastman memos are worse than the Torture Memos. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 2:01 pm by Laurence H. Tribe
Specifically, in an apparent effort to get around the obviously binding force of the Electoral Count Act – as to which John Eastman infamously wrote Vice President Pence’s chief counsel to “implore” him to consider “one more relatively minor violation” of the ECA (para 122) – Chesebro completely misused part of the latest edition of my constitutional law treatise (he cites the pages referenced above). [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 5:58 am by Above the Law
[WSJ] * John Eastman wants his disbarment proceedings halted so he can concentrate on being an (as yet) unindicted co-conspirator. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 4:47 pm by Rick Hasen
Politico: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special… Continue reading The post “John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings” appeared first on Election… [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 11:26 am by Howard Bashman
John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings; The lawyer who advised Donald Trump in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 is known as ‘co-conspirator 2’ in the special counsel’s newest case”: Kyle Cheney of Politico has this report. [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]
7 Aug 2023, 3:46 am by jonathanturley
In the wake of the second indictment of Donald Trump, many law professors have offered good-faith rationales for why the four counts do not violate the First Amendment. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 5:51 am by Tom Joscelyn
He had to ward off a similar entreaty from “Co-Conspirator 2” (John Eastman) a few weeks later. [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 2:37 am
 Speaking of co-conspirators, we think the following: EVERY unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment will be charged in a superseding indictment, and that includes Rudy Giuliani (CC#1), attorney John Eastman (CC#2), attorney Sydney (wack-adoodle) Powell (CC#3)and former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark (CC#4). [read post]
2 Aug 2023, 1:46 am by Seán Binder
 While the six have not been named and none have been indicted, descriptions suggest the co-conspirators include Rudy Giuliani, Trump lawyers John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark. [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 8:22 pm by Josh Blackman
The Washington Post speculates that Rudy Giuliani was #1, John Eastman was #2, Sidney Powell was #3, Jeff Clark was #4, Kenneth Chesebro was #5, and #6 remains unknown. [read post]
Multiple US media sources have tentatively identified five of them as lawyers directly or indirectly connected with the ex-President: former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani (Co-Conspirator 1), law professor and former Trump lawyer John  Eastman (Co-Conspirator 2), former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell (Co-Conspirator 3), former US Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark (Co-Conspirator 4), and pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro (Co-Conspirator 5). [read post]
1 Aug 2023, 2:41 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Link to text of criminal indictment filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 08/01/23 in case number 1:23-cr-00257-TSC, includes for co-conspirators (news reports identify them as Rudy Giuliani; John Eastman; Syndey Powell; Jeffrey Clark, Kenneth Chesebro, and yet unknown.) [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 4:42 am by SHG
Retired Harvard constitutional law professor Mark Tushnet has come up with a theory, even given it a name, that would make former Chapman Law School dean John Eastman blush. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 9:38 am by Norman L. Eisen
  That includes Trump and John Eastman’s efforts to press Mike Pence with the more radical plan to disregard votes. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 7:00 am by jonathanturley
Those hearings showed that the White House’s lawyers rejected the theories put forward by figures like Trump associate John Eastman. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 4:31 am by Norman L. Eisen
It may include some or all of those mentioned by the Select Committee in their referrals for prosecution: Trump and associated attorneys John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro. [read post]
10 Jul 2023, 2:18 pm by Giles Peaker
Secondly: in the second part of the decision in Khan, the Court of Appeal resolved the tension between Avon Ground Rents Ltd v Child (2018) UKUT 204 (LC) and John Romans Park Homes Ltd v Hancock, 17 October 2019 (His Honour Judge Martin Rodger KC), unreported. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 12:19 pm by Professor Alberto Bernabe
  John Eastman, Sydney Powell, Jeffrey Clark, and Jenna Ellis, among others, have been in the news recently.So today I am writing to report on two developments this week.First, you may remember attorney Lin Wood who was sanctioned by a court in Michigan. [read post]