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State Bar charges John Eastman, lawyer who advised Trump on overturning the election, with ethics violations

The former lawyer of former President Donald Trump, John Eastman, appears on the screen during the fourth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California filed disciplinary charges Thursday against Orange County attorney John Eastman, accusing him of multiple ethics violations stemming from his actions while advising then-President Donald Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election.

The charges could be the first step to Eastman losing his California law license.

Eastman, a former professor and dean at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law, emerged as a key legal adviser to Trump in the weeks after Joe Biden won the presidency.

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