Besides John Eastman, the only other candidate for Easter Bunny was Lindsey Graham (according to anonymous Washington insider info). When he tried on the furry Easter Bunny suit, everyone in the Oval Office exploded in laughter. It wasn't a good look. Apparently, Trump laughed so hard he squirt Diet Coke out of his nose. So John Eastman and his cowboy hat won without serious opposition.
It seems like yet another case of group-think. No one there could imagine how Eastman's crack-pot idea could fail. He would have benefited if someone brainstormed or trouble shot his idea.
The judge in Eastman's ethics case recommended that he be disbarred. I suspect the California Supreme Court will agree, but it's hard to say.
>>>An attorney discipline judge in California has recommended that ex-Trump election lawyer
John Eastman be disbarred, according to an opinion released on Wednesday.
Eastman will lose his ability to practice law within days, because the court’s decision involuntarily revokes his license, according to the opinion.
Judge Yvette Roland’s opinion comes after a lengthy trial about Eastman’s actions as he led some of the efforts for
Donald Trump to challenge his 2020 election loss. The opinion serves as a recommendation to the California Supreme Court, which will ultimately decide whether to endorse or reject the punishment. Eastman will have the opportunity to appeal Roland’s ruling.<<<
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/politics/judge-recommends-john-eastman-be-disbarred/index.html
Jeffrey Clark is in the middle of an ethics hearing for his role in the 2020 election shenanigans.
>>>Clark is accused of attempting to engage in dishonest conduct during his role in the
aftermath of then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss and attempt to
overturn the 2020 election. At issue is a letter Clark drafted that said the department was investigating “various irregularities” and had identified “significant concerns” that may have impacted the election. He was trying to persuade Rosen and Donoghue to send the letter to Georgia.<<<
The second day of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary hearing painted a picture of someone who remained adamant that there were irregularities and fraud in the 2020 election that required deeper examination, despite numerous attempts by his superiors to convince him other
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In some ways, Clark's efforts to take over the DOJ bother me more than Eastman's nutty legal theories.
>>>Former senior Justice Department officials testified Thursday that they told
former President Trump he'd have mass resignations on hand if he installed former assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark to run the DOJ.
Why it matters: Trump had considered naming Clark to replace then-Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen after Rosen refused to investigate baseless election fraud claims. Clark, an environmental attorney, pushed
a plan to overturn the election which former DOJ leaders called "nuts" and a "murder-suicide pact" at the
Jan. 6 select committee's fifth hearing.<<<
The resignation threats worked then, but I'm not so sure they would if Trump were to be reelected (this assumes Trump would try something nutty, which seems like a fairly safe bet).
