Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Trump Coup Lawyer SHUT DOWN By Judge, DISBARMENT NEXT?!
Episode Date: May 4, 2024Why is Trump co-conspirator John Eastman still practicing law with clients like Marjorie Taylor Green AND Matt Gaetz no less, WHILE HIS LAW LICENSE IS SUSPENDED? A California judge is wondering the sa...me thing, as she finds the twice criminally indicted Eastman to continue to be a “threat to the public” and has shown no remorse about his filing suits with known false claims in them. Michael Popok examines the judge’s order and why Eastman’s motion to be reinstated actually PROVES WHY HE SHOULD BE DISBARRED. Lomi: Visit https://Lomi.com/LEGALAF and use code LEGALAF and checkout to save $50! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/legalaf Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tennessee sounds perfect. This is Michael Popak, Legal AF. Why is Trump co-conspirator and lawyer
John Eastman, who's been indicted twice for criminal charges? Why is he still representing
clients? Why is he still allowed to represent clients as a lawyer? That's something that a judge in California would like to know as well because Judge Yvette
Rowland has already determined that he, John Eastman, should be disbarred for ethical violations
and the threat he poses to the public and the fact that he has refused to accept responsibility
and doesn't think he did anything wrong in trying to overthrow democracy and bring false allegations of voter fraud in an
effort to keep Donald Trump into power. Well, prosecutors and grand jurors don't feel the same
way about John Eastman because in Arizona, by way of the attorney general and the fake electors,
and in Georgia, by way of the Fulton County District Attorney
and the grand juries there, they've indicted John Eastman
because they found, as did a central district California
judge almost two years ago, found that it was more likely
than not that he committed a crime or fraud along with
Donald Trump, who also committed a crime or fraud
to keep Donald Trump in power.
John Eastman, along with Ken Chesper,
along with Mike Roman, along with Peter Navarro,
devised and implemented, along with Boris Epstein,
the lawyer for Donald Trump,
another lawyer for Donald Trump,
devised and implemented the fake elector scheme
to create fake elector certificates. No, to hold fake elector scheme to create fake elector certificates.
No, to hold fake elector meetings
and then create certificates where they signed
at the bottom of each receipt in seven battleground states.
And then through Mike Rome and tried to deliver them
to Mike Pence to stop the certification of the election
on the 6th of January.
That's how we got here.
John Eastman, that half-wit constitutional scholar
who practiced law and was a professor somewhere
in California at a law school, if you can believe it,
has been hung out to drive by Donald Trump,
who didn't appear at and didn't intervene
in John Eastman's case when the Gen 6 committee
brought a subpoena against John Eastman,
and he tried to refuse to turn over emails and documents under some sort of cover of attorney-client
privilege, which was stripped away from him because of the crime fraud exception as determined by the
California judge. Same thing here. So why is he practicing law? He told the judge, Judge Rowland, who found that, uh,
found probable cause to, uh,
that he violated various ethics rules in California.
And I'll read to you from the order that she just did.
She did that over a month ago after full evidentiary hearing in which Johnny's
been testified, brought in expert witnesses and tried to, uh,
tried to argue. He was just doing, uh doing what attorneys do, right? All attorneys
try to overthrow democracy, bring scurrilous and false statements of voter
fraud and attack people for committing voter fraud when it was all untrue. They
all do that. They all create fake electors and the problem that Judge
Rowland has is the problem that I have. Why is he still practicing law? So his
argument is I have to still practice law. I have clients. Who are his clients?
Marjorie Taylor Greene, of course. Mac Gates, of course. They're being sued or
they're suing in a case in California because they were denied a political
rally in a place where they weren't supposed to be holding political rallies.
He represents a high school student. He wants to fly some sort of crazy
Confederate or otherwise flag. He represents other MA school student. He wants to fly some sort of crazy Confederate or otherwise flag.
He represents other MAGA people.
He says that's the primary source of his income.
And the judge says, exactly, you're proving my point.
You are a menace and a threat to the public and you have an accepted responsibility.
So even if I could remediate the harm to you
while you're appealing my recommendation
that you be disbarred,
which creates an automatic suspension in California
under the California bar, I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't do it
because I don't want you practicing law right now.
This is like a defective product
that's out in the stream of commerce that's, that's, uh, you know, cutting off arms and legs. And,
and the product says to the judge, well, I'm appealing. I want to still be out
there cutting off arms and legs. The judge says, no, that's the point.
You're defective. You're a defective lawyer. And until you get help, you get remediation, you're compelled by the bar to go through additional training
and ethics training, and you sit out for a number of years,
maybe up to five years,
I'm not letting you continue to apply your trade and take,
and it doesn't matter.
I mean, the judge's point is,
it doesn't matter if it's MAGA right wing
that wanna hire you, you shouldn't be practicing law. That's the point.
That's why we have an automatic suspension once there is a recommendation of
disbarment because now the burden shifts. It's now on the, it's now on the, um,
lawyer who's now already been a judge to be a threat. And the judge made clear in her order, I didn't say that you are
victimizing clients per se. Your ethics rules are about your failure to abide by professional
ethics and responsibility, creating a danger to the public. And you're continuing to demonstrate
the danger by the very request that I let you represent clients. It seems circular,
seems like a tautology, but it's not. Let me read to you from Judge Rolland of the State Bar Court.
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So it's an administrative judge.
There's a state bar court of California
that deals with these types of things.
In the matter of John Charles Eastman, order denying respondents motion to stay in active
enrollment, to stay in active enrollment, meaning let me stay enrolled on the bar of California to
practice or for an interim remedy. So it says here that the state bar shall order
the involuntary inactive enrollment of an attorney,
that means suspended upon the filing of a recommendation
of disbarment after hearing or default.
That's on page one of the order.
Consequently, inactive enrollment, meaning suspension,
is mandatory in California
under the California Business and Professions Code.
John Eastman on page two, this is the judge, argues that the court has the authority to delay
temporarily the effective date of the licensee's disciplinary suspension upon a showing of good
cause. And the judge says, that's the point. You haven't showed me good cause that you're
no longer a threat. The judge says in the bottom of page two You haven't showed me good cause that you're no longer a threat.
The judge says in the bottom of page two,
the court made no finding that Eastman's ethical violations
resulted in client harm.
Instead, the court found that disbarment
was the appropriate sanction for Eastman's misconduct
in part to safeguard the public.
The court's decision, the judge continues,
determined that Eastman made deceptive and
misleading claims in legal documents, public forums, and other contexts concerning the 2020
presidential election and the extent of Vice President Michael Pence's authority to override
the electoral process. In other words, John Eastman took the position told Donald Trump that and told others that that
Michael Pence Mike Pence had the authority as the vice president to
override the certificates in front of him and not declare the election for
Joe Biden which was false we've had judge Ludwig on here who is a
constitutional scholar of the First Order who said and told Mike Pence that
at the time as his counsel that that is
BS that that can't be done. That's not the powers of the vice president and Eastman and even in his text messages and emails
Which have been revealed by the gen 6 committee and are in the hands of all the prosecutors
He knew he knew that there was no support for this
He said if that went up to the Supreme Court his legal position it would lose 9-0 or maybe 8-1. I'm sure Clarence Thomas was the one. And the judge knows all of
this in her record that she's developed in his suspension or bar recommendation or bar
disbarment recommendation. So what the judge says in the bottom of page two is, despite his
client's desire for Eastman to
continue representing them, Marjorie Teller-Green, Matt Gaetz, and others, based on the gravity
of Eastman's transgressions as a lawyer, particularly those involving moral turpitude, moral turpitude,
right?
That's lying.
That's doing things that are immoral as it relates to your law license and the increased
likelihood of future misconduct
due to his refusal to acknowledge any wrongdoing.
In other words, he's a defective product.
He's a defective lawyer that shouldn't be taking on clients
even once who are gullible enough
or are MAGA enough to hire him.
There is insufficient evidence,
the judge says at the top of page three,
to justify a stay of his suspension and and therefore the
court's conclusion that Eastman failed to show that he poses no significant threat to the public
precludes the imposition of interim remedies. The judge was kind to him. She could have also said
he's been indicted by a grand jury in Georgia, indicted by a grand jury in Arizona.
He's the unindicted co-conspirator, one of six
in Jack Smith's special counsel election interference case
against Donald Trump.
This guy needs to be sidelined.
California bar step up, disbar him,
make him take whatever retraining,
send him back to the Westworld warehouse for reprogramming
before he comes back out to represent any clients,
MAGA, conservative, liberal, independent, blue, green,
or whatever, until, I'm speaking as a fellow bar member,
not in California, but in two other bars,
sideline him and do it quickly.
As I started the hot take, why does John Eastman have clients?
Why is he continuing to practice law?
And that's the question that the Judge Roland would like to know in California.
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