{"id":2001779,"date":"2023-08-15T19:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T23:47:06","slug":"john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer-2\/","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-2%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=2001779&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 Vows to Challenge Indictment Against Fulton County Defendant<\/h2>\n<p>A lawyer representing\u200b Fulton County defendant John Eastman\u200b has condemned the indictment against his client, former President Donald Trump, and other allies \u200das a &#8220;political&#8221; move. In a statement, Eastman&#8217;s attorney Harvey Silverglate expressed his\u2064 determination to challenge the charges &#8220;in any \u200cand all forums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Lawyers everywhere\u2062 should be sleepless over this latest stunt to criminalize their advocacy,&#8221; Silverglate \u200ctold the Washington\u200b 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 leaves \u2063unexploded ordinances for lawyers to navigate in \u2062perpetuity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Three\u2064 Key Revelations from the Georgia \u2062Indictment Against Donald Trump<\/h3>\n<p>The 41-count\u2063 indictment, released late Monday night, names 19 individuals, including the former president and his lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman. It accuses the defendants of unlawfully conspiring to conduct and \u200dparticipate in a &#8220;criminal enterprise&#8221; following Trump&#8217;s 2020 election loss\u200c in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Eastman, a former visiting professor at the University of Colorado, is specifically accused of aiding in the design of\u2062 a legal strategy aimed at keeping \u2064Trump in power after \u200bhis election defeat. He is also alleged to be \u2062a central figure in \u200b<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> \u200bof fraudulent electors in\u2062 swing states won by Biden.<\/p>\n<p>One of the acts of conspiracy listed in the indictment alleges that Eastman \u2063met\u2063 with Vice \u2063President \u200dMike \u200bPence&#8217;s chief of staff and counsel on January 5, 2021,\u200b to request Pence&#8217;s rejection of certain\u2064 presidential electors during\u200b the joint session of Congress the following\u2064 day.<\/p>\n<p>Silverglate\u2063 argues \u2063that the \u200cactivities outlined in the\u2062 indictment are \u2063political rather than criminal.\u2063 He states that\u2063 Eastman will\u2062 challenge\u200d the indictment through all available\u2064 means.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It goes hand-in-glove with \u2063the recent effort to \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-vows-to-challenge-legal-cluster-bomb-georgia-trump-rico-case-lawyer-2\/\" title=\"Lawyer John Eastman to challenge Georgia Trump RICO case.\">criminalize \u200blawful political speech<\/a> and \u200blegal advice, \u200cin stark violation \u2063of\u2064 constitutional rights to \u2064Freedom \u2062of \u200cSpeech, Right \u2064to Petition the Government\u2064 for \u200cRedress of Grievances, and the Right to Counsel,&#8221; \u200cSilverglate added.<\/p>\n<p>Eastman is also <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.\">facing disbarment proceedings<\/a> in\u2063 California, which he has requested to be put on hold due to concerns \u200dabout <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\u2064 separate\u200c federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has \u200cgiven Eastman and the other 18 defendants, including\u2063 attorney Sidney Powell and former chief of\u2062 staff Mark\u2063 Meadows, until August 25 at noon to surrender to \u200dlaw\u2063 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":2001780,"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-2001779","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\/2001779","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=2001779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}