John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings

I'm no lawyer but I feel like [my client should be able to keep being a lawyer because the conduct you're trying to discipline for has also made him a co-conspirator in a federal indictment and he's likely to face charges] is a bad argument.

If you have a reasonable belief that describing your own conduct will hurt you in a criminal case then you can't also have a reasonable belief that your conduct was within the rules of professional conduct.

Miller said the growing concern about criminal charges might prompt Eastman to assert his Fifth Amendment rights during disbarment proceedings. [...] But invoking the Fifth Amendment in the disbarment proceedings would jeopardize Eastman’s ability to defend his law license, his lawyers wrote.

Sucks to be him, I guess.

These people live in a fantasy land where everything is just rainbows and unicorns. No reason for delay, if anything expedite the disbarment.

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For those who are interested: MSNBC publishes a podcast called "Prosecuting Donald Trump" and the episode dated August 1st features former federal judge Michael Luttig who is interviewed about various subjects, including his tweets concerning the standpoint of Eastman in January 2020 that implied Trump could have Pence declare the election invalid. Which was nonsense.

https://www.msnbc.com/podcasts

This is how guilty people behave.

Boo fucking hoo. If he can plead the fifth he can do so; if he can testify then he can do so. At least he gets to choose.

If I understand this correctly, the reasoning is to put off disbarment until he’s tried for criminal charges so he doesn’t look like a big ol POS while he’s tried for that, and then do whatever when it comes time for the civil trial.

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