{"id":2001770,"date":"2023-08-15T19:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:43:11","slug":"john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer John Eastman to challenge Georgia Trump RICO case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2001770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Lawyer \u2064Vows to Challenge\u2062 Indictment Against Fulton County \u2063Defendant<\/h2>\n<p>A lawyer representing Fulton County defendant John Eastman has condemned the indictment against his client, former President Donald Trump, and other allies as a &#8220;political&#8221; move. In a statement, Eastman&#8217;s attorney Harvey Silverglate expressed his determination to challenge the charges \u200d&#8221;in \u2064any and all forums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lawyers everywhere should be sleepless over this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kjp-really-not-happy-with-texas-bussing-illegals-to-sanctuary-cities\/\" title=\"KJP Really Not Happy With Texas Bussing Illegals to Sanctuary Cities\">latest stunt<\/a> to criminalize their\u2062 advocacy,&#8221; Silverglate told the Washington Examiner. &#8220;This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-there-a-red-line-fox-news-reporter-grills-psaki-on-putins-potential-war-crimes\/\" title=\"\u2018Is There A Red Line?\u2019 Fox News Reporter Grills Psaki On Putin\u2019s Potential War Crimes\">legal cluster bomb<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer\/\" title=\"Lawyer John Eastman to challenge Georgia Trump RICO case.\">leaves\u200c unexploded ordinances<\/a> for lawyers to navigate in perpetuity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Three Key Revelations from the Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump<\/h3>\n<p>The 41-count indictment, released late Monday night, names 19 individuals, including the \u200dformer president\u200c and his lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. The \u2064charges accuse the defendants of unlawfully conspiring to conduct and participate in\u200c a &#8220;criminal enterprise&#8221; following Trump&#8217;s loss in the 2020 election in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Eastman, a former visiting professor at the University of Colorado, is specifically accused of aiding in the design of a legal strategy aimed at keeping Trump in power after his election defeat. He is also\u200d alleged to be a central figure \u2063in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-who-challenged-trump-2020-election-results-relinquishes-law-license\/\" title=\"Lawyer who contested Trump's 2020 election outcome surrenders license.\">promoting baseless claims<\/a> of fraudulent electors \u2063in swing states won by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>One\u2064 of the acts of conspiracy listed in the indictment alleges that Eastman met with Vice President Mike \u200dPence&#8217;s chief of staff\u2063 and counsel on\u2064 January 5, 2021, to request Pence&#8217;s rejection of certain presidential electors during the joint session of Congress the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Silverglate argues that the indictment \u2063against Eastman and the others is &#8220;political,\u2063 but not criminal.&#8221; He asserts that Eastman will utilize all available forums to challenge the charges, emphasizing the violation of constitutional rights to freedom of speech, the right to petition the government, and\u200c the right to counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Eastman \u200cis also facing disbarment proceedings in California, which he has requested \u200dto be put on\u200d hold\u2064 due to concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-drivers-race-to-grab-cash-that-fell-out-of-armored-truck-on-california-freeway\/\" title=\"WATCH: Drivers Race to Grab Cash that Fell Out of Armored Truck on California Freeway\">potential criminal charges<\/a> in a separate federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton\u2062 County\u2063 District Attorney Fani \u2062Willis has given \u2064Eastman and the other defendants until August 25 \u2063at noon to surrender to law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lawyer representing John Eastman, a Fulton County defendant, criticized the indictment of his client, Donald Trump, and other allies as a &#8220;political&#8221; maneuver. He pledged to contest the charges in all available platforms. Harvey Silverglate, Eastman&#8217;s attorney, warned that this attempt to criminalize advocacy should concern lawyers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}