John Eastman is a lawyer, legal scholar, and a friend.
A former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, candidate for California attorney general, and dean of Chapman University School of Law, I got to know John during my weeklong 2018 legal fellowship with the Claremont Institute, which he oversaw.
There has been an astronomical amount of misinformation about John's activities in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol jamboree, as well as the legal advice that he offered his high-profile client during that time.
The corporate media and the Democrat-lawfare complex typically speak of John's legal advice as encouraging the "Overturning of an election" or "Fomenting an insurrection," but such hyperbolic talk is irresponsible and wildly off base.
John acquitted himself well in a compelling essay he penned for Claremont's American Mind online journal on Jan. 18, 2021, titled "Setting the Record Straight on the POTUS 'Ask.'" His 12th Amendment argument about the vice president's more active role in certifying the states' slates of electors and his accompanying argument regarding the constitutional dubiousness of the Electoral Count of 1887 might not be correct, but it is well within the bound of plausible, nonfrivolous legal argumentation an attorney can press upon an embattled client.
Nor is John Eastman the only man being prosecuted, and possibly disbarred, for his legal activity after the 2020 election.
The definitive American example of such unpopular legal representation actually dates back to before the United States was even independent: In 1770, a young lawyer named John Adams, the man who would become the young republic's second president, took it upon himself to defend the British soldiers accused of killing five colonists at the Boston Massacre.
https://spectator.org/john-eastman-and-the-lefts-war-on-the-legal-profession/
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