It took two years, but the most important person in the coup conspiracy, next to the Ochre Menace himself, law professor John Eastman, is finally facing disciplinary action from his state bar association. He was the author of the infamous "Coup memorandum" in which he outlined the strategy of using flaws in the constitutional order to overturn the 2020 election results to keep his leader in power. The California Bar Association announced the filing of eleven disciplinary counts against him that if sustained by clear and convincing evidence before the state bar court will lead to his disbarment as a member of the legal profession. Trial Counsel George Cardona said in his filing, "There is nothing more sacrosanct than the free and peaceful transfer of power. For California attorneys, adherence to the California and United States Constitutions is their highest legal duty." Of the eleven charges one is failure to support the laws and Constitution of the United States, six counts of seeking to mislead a court, six counts of moral turpitude by misrepresentation and six counts of moral turpitude in violation of California's Business and Professions Code Section 6106.
Eastman, as readers will recall, wrote two memos invoking the Electoral Count Act as a means to allow the Vice President reject slates of electors from states in which Trump supporters claimed there was material vote fraud. Those claims were proved false. Some sixty-two state court cases and the US Department of Justice determined these claims had no basis in fact. Eastman ignored those facts when he urged armed supporters to march on the Capitol where the counting was taking place on January 6th. He told the crowd gathered on the Elipse that “dead people had voted” in the presidential election, that Dominion voting machines had fraudulently manipulated the election results, and that Vice President Pence did not deserve to be in office if he did not delay the counting of electoral votes. These statements contributed to provoking the mob that participated in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol after the rally. Georgia state election officials later determined that just four votes had been cast in the name of deceased persons, who may have been alive when the ballots were cast, not the 5,000 claimed by Individual One.
Defendants that are members of the "Proud Boys" militia said they will subpoena Donald J. Trump to testify at their trial taking place in Washington, DC. If convicted of seditious conspiracy, they face up to twenty years in prison. Reality may be sinking in at last, thanks in large part to the historic record created by the House Select Committee on January 6th.
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