Search Results for: Eastman
“Memo from Trump attorney outlined how Pence could overturn election, says new book” (It’s Jenna Ellis, Not Eastman, in This One)
ABC News:
In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed to Vice President Mike Pence’s top aide, on New Year’s Eve, a detailed plan for undoing President Joe Biden’s election… Continue reading
“No, Constitutional Scholars Are Not ’50/50′ in Agreement With Donald Trump About Jan. 6”
Matt Seligman for Slate:
This is, frankly, nuts. Eastman’s idea is that because a violent mob stormed the Capitol, physically preventing Congress from sticking to the law’s two-hour time limit in the most brutally literal way, Pence could ignore… Continue reading
“Jan. 6 Panel Subpoenas Flynn and Eastman, Scrutinizing Election Plot”
NYT:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued new subpoenas on Monday for a half-dozen allies of former President Donald J. Trump, including his former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, as it moved its… Continue reading
Must-read: “Notes on an Authoritarian Conspiracy: Inside the Claremont Institute’s ’79 Days to Inauguration’ Report”
The Bulwark:
The sun rises on January 6, 2021 while a nation is in crisis.Michigan’s presidential electors are in dispute after a mysterious fire in Detroit destroyed thousands of mail-in ballots, ultimately throwing the election to Congress.The nation’s capital is… Continue reading
Will Laurence Tribe draft his own Eastman memo for January 6, 2025?
Last month, The Atlantic published a piece with the title, “Kamala Harris Might Have to Stop the Steal.” That is, the vice president* may have to exercise some authority during the counting of electoral votes in 2025 in the joint… Continue reading
“During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president’s inaction caused attack on Capitol”
From the Washington Post:
As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused… Continue reading
In Secretly Recorded Video, Eastman Proposes Primarying “Spineless” State Legislators Who Refused to Submit a Second Slate of Electors to Help Trump Based on False Claims of Fraud
More from the hidden camera video:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1454108075225276425?s=20
“Jan. 6 committee to seek testimony from Trump lawyer who drafted strategy to overturn election”
From Politico:
Congressional investigators are preparing to seek testimony from John Eastman, the attorney who crafted a legal strategy to help Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, a House aide confirmed on Tuesday… Continue reading
John Eastman, Last Seen Disavowing His Own Memo, Reaffirms Support for His Own Legal Reasoning on Hidden Camera; Says Mike Pence Didn’t Follow His Advice Because He’s an “Establishment” Republican
Watch here:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453110960638496770?s=20
“Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency”
WaPo:
They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with… Continue reading
“John Eastman Is Right, His Election Memo Was ‘Crazy'”
Matthew Seligman for Slate.
John Eastman, in National Review Interview, Tries to Distance Himself from His Own Memo Suggesting How VP Pence Could Steal the Election for Trump, Repudiates Its Major Points
Signs that Eastman is getting increasingly desperate to distance himself from his false claims that the election was stolen from Trump and that VP Pence could unilaterally steal it back for him when Congress was supposed to confirm the Electoral… Continue reading
“Legal Ethics, Bar Discipline and John Eastman”
Paul Rosenzweig:
Here’s my bottom line: Bar discipline is an instrument ill suited to the resolution of complaints of the sort being raised about Eastman’s conduct. While it is quite possible that he may face discipline, it is equally… Continue reading
John Eastman Says That FedSoc Did Not Revoke His Membership or Ask Him to Step Down From Leadership Position (But He Does Complain About Lack of Invitation to Speak at National Conference and Being Disinvited from Other Events)
Over at Powerline:
This is John Eastman’s account of the facts bearing on the Federalist Society reflected in the Claremont Institute statement quoted in my post:
1. I was disinvited from the scholars retreat, on the ground that I… Continue reading