California authorities oppose John Eastman’s bid to delay disbarment proceedings
Eastman is trying to delay the trial over his law license in light of the recent Trump indictment.
California authorities seeking the disbarment of attorney John Eastman — an architect of Donald Trump’s last-gasp effort to subvert the 2020 presidential election — say Trump’s recent indictment is no basis to delay their efforts.
Eastman, whose disbarment trial began in June but was recessed until late August, asked last week to indefinitely postpone the proceedings — perhaps for years — while the criminal case against Trump is pending. That’s because the indictment references Eastman, without naming him, as “co-conspirator 2,” one of six alleged accomplices. His attorneys say that reference heightens the likelihood that he will face indictment and therefore need to assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
But Duncan Carling, the attorney leading the effort to strip Eastman’s law license, said the push for delay is unjustified. Eastman, he said, has been aware of his criminal exposure for years — so much so that he asserted his Fifth Amendment rights in appearances before the House Jan. 6 select committee and Fulton County prosecutors investigating the same matters.
“This is nothing more than an opportunistic attempt to delay the decision in respondent’s State Bar case, as his situation with regard to potential criminal charges is the same today as when the trial started,” Carling wrote in a 17-page filing.
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