Tag: Eastman, John C

John Eastman Should Lose Law License, Judge Finds

A judge in California recommended on Wednesday that the lawyer John Eastman be stripped of his law license, finding he had violated rules of professional ethics by persistently lying in his efforts to help former President Donald J. Trump maintain his grip on power after losing the 2020 election. In a 128-page ruling, the judge, […]

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New Messages Detail Roots of Trump’s ‘Fake Electors’ Scheme

Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results. Through litigation, Mr. Chesebro said, the Trump campaign could allege “various systemic abuses” and, with court […]

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Clarence Thomas’s Clerks: An ‘Extended Family’ With Reach and Power

In late August, amid a rising outcry over revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas had received decades of undisclosed gifts and free luxury travel, a lawyer in Chicago fired off an email to her fellow former Thomas clerks. “Many of us have been asked recently about the justice,” wrote the lawyer, Taylor Meehan. “In response, there’s […]

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Kenneth Chesebro Is a Key Witness as ‘Fake Electors’ Face Charges

Twenty-four of the so-called fake Trump electors now face criminal charges in three different states, and one of the legal architects of the plan to deploy them, Kenneth Chesebro, has emerged as a witness in all of the cases. Mr. Chesebro, a Harvard-trained lawyer, helped develop the plan to have Republicans in battleground states won […]

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Ahead of Her Georgia Trial, Sidney Powell Seeks Distance From Trump

Few defenders of Donald J. Trump promoted election fraud theories after his 2020 defeat as stridently as Sidney K. Powell. In high-profile appearances, often alongside other members of the Trump legal team, she pushed conspiracies involving Venezuela, Cuba and China, as well as George Soros, Hugo Chávez and the Clintons, while baselessly claiming that voting […]

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Defendants in Trump Georgia Case Seek Donations for Big Legal Fees

Steven C. Lee, an Illinois pastor charged in the Georgia election interference case against Donald J. Trump and his allies, is hoping to fund his legal defense, at least in part, with sales of “MAGA honey” bottles shaped like the former president. A higher-profile defendant, Rudolph W. Giuliani, turned to a high-dollar fund-raiser at Mr. […]

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Prosecutors Ask if Trump Will Blame His Lawyers as Defense in Election Case

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Tuesday to force former President Donald J. Trump to tell them months before he goes to trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election whether he intends to defend himself by blaming the stable of lawyers around him around at the time for giving him poor legal […]

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Clarence Thomas Recuses as Supreme Court Rejects Trump Lawyer’s Appeal

Justice Clarence Thomas, in a break from his practices in earlier cases involving the 2020 election, recused himself on Monday when the Supreme Court turned down an appeal from John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who advised President Donald J. Trump on a plan to subvert the vote. As is its custom, the court gave no […]

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Trump Will Not Seek to Move Georgia Election Case to Federal Court

Former President Donald J. Trump will not seek to move the criminal racketeering case against him in Atlanta to federal court, according to a legal filing from his lawyer on Thursday. Mr. Trump was indicted by a grand jury in August, along with 18 of his advisers and allies, after a two-and-a-half year investigation into […]

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Latest on Trump Georgia Case: Report to Be Released

A judge in Georgia is expected on Friday to release the final report of a special grand jury that spent much of last year investigating whether former President Donald J. Trump and his allies criminally interfered in the 2020 presidential election in the state. Mr. Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted last month […]

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