{"id":2002671,"date":"2023-08-16T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-ethics-trial-must-push-forward-despite-attempts-to-delay-california-bar\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T19:36:44","slug":"john-eastman-ethics-trial-must-push-forward-despite-attempts-to-delay-california-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-eastman-ethics-trial-must-push-forward-despite-attempts-to-delay-california-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"The ethics trial of John Eastman must proceed despite efforts to delay it: California Bar."},"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\">30<\/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-ethics-trial-must-push-forward-despite-attempts-to-delay-california-bar%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=2002671&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>Attorney John Eastman&#8217;s\u200b Disbarment Proceedings to Proceed Despite\u200d Pleas for Delay<\/h2>\n<p>According to a new filing from California State Bar officials, attorney \u200cJohn Eastman&#8217;s ongoing disbarment proceedings, in which he is \u200baccused of \u200cviolating ethics and state law, will\u200d continue as scheduled. Despite Eastman&#8217;s requests for a \u2062delay,\u200c prosecutors in the disciplinary case argue that the trial on the 11-count complaint should resume\u200c on Aug. 22. Eastman&#8217;s \u2064plea for a delay was based on the ongoing federal criminal investigation into former President\u200c Donald Trump, whom he advised, and any potential trial \u2064that may arise \u200dfrom it.<\/p>\n<h3>State Bar&#8217;s Position<\/h3>\n<p>In \u2064an Aug. 15 court filing, state bar attorney Duncan Carling stated, &#8220;The burden on the State Bar of postponing the remainder of the trial for an indefinite period of time, possibly several years, outweighs the burden on \u200crespondent in completing the trial.&#8221; The state bar&#8217;s filing came \u2062one day after Eastman, Trump, and 17 others were indicted on racketeering and other charges related to their alleged attempts to\u2064 pressure\u2063 Georgia election officials to manipulate the results of the 2020 presidential election. The state bar&#8217;s attorneys also noted that the Fulton County criminal case against Eastman and \u2063his co-defendants could take years to resolve.<\/p>\n<h3>Eastman&#8217;s \u200cConcerns<\/h3>\n<p>Even before the Georgia charges were \u200cbrought, Eastman expressed\u200c his desire to \u2063postpone \u200dthe remainder of his trial due to \u200cconcerns about being targeted \u2064in special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s probe. Smith&#8217;s Aug. \u200d3 indictment \u200ddescribed Eastman as \u2063one of Trump&#8217;s co-conspirators in an \u200dalleged scheme to undermine the \u200d2020 election \u2063results. However, \u200bSmith has only charged Trump in the federal case so far.<\/p>\n<h3>State Bar&#8217;s Evidence<\/h3>\n<p>Carling emphasized that the state \u200bbar \u200chas a substantial amount of evidence against Eastman that it intends to present in the case before the State Bar Court of California. He wrote, &#8220;The State Bar has presented extensive \u200devidence to support \u2026 charges that [Eastman] engaged in acts of\u2062 dishonesty and moral turpitude in matters concerning the peaceful transition of power in 2020.&#8221; Eastman disputes these charges and continues to assert that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that his actions to challenge the results\u2064 were justified.<\/p>\n<p>Carling also highlighted the\u200d strong public interest in the case and the importance of resolving the dispute as quickly \u2062as possible.<\/p>\n<h3>Eastman&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>On Tuesday, Eastman released a statement through his co-counsel, \u2062Harvey Silverglate, \u2063pledging to challenge \u200cthe &#8220;legal cluster bomb&#8221; of the Georgia racketeering case \u200din \u200c&#8221;any and all forums.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney John Eastman faces disbarment proceedings for ethics and state law violations. California State Bar officials reject his request for a delay, urging the trial to proceed. Prosecutors aim to hold Eastman accountable for the 11-count complaint, potentially resulting in the loss of his law license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002673,"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-2002671","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\/2002671","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=2002671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}