John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar
by Nathan Solis, Hannah Fry and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Mar 01, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Orange County attorney John Eastman is at the center of an ethics investigation into whether he violated laws while advising former President Donald Trump on how he could overturn his election defeat in 2020, the State Bar of California said Tuesday.
Eastman, a former professor and dean at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, emerged as a key legal advisor to Trump in the weeks after it was apparent he had lost the election to Joe Biden. Eastman wrote two legal memos that advised former Vice President Mike Pence he could
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