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Commentary: Hold John Eastman accountable for Trump’s coup strategy

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 January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C..

On Thursday, the State Bar of California announced that it was initiating disciplinary proceedings against Donald Trump’s lawyer John Eastman and seeking his disbarment for his role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This announcement comes 16 months after we led bipartisan efforts to file ethics complaints against Eastman in California.

By enabling the former president’s lawless attacks on the election, Eastman,

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