Disbarment trial could help sink Trump, end career for Santa Fe lawyer

Two days before Donald Trump's attempted takeover of the United States in 2021 John Eastman was summoned to the Oval Office to share some exotic extralegal scenarios. As he left a Santa Fe restaurant in 2022 he was frisked by federal agents who seized his iPhone Pro 12 presumed to contain incriminating evidence of Trump's attempted coup d'état. 

Eastman owns a property at 180 Valley Drive on the north side of Santa Fe not far from the Governor's mansion.

Attorneys for the State Bar of California are seeking Eastman’s disbarment on grounds of moral turpitude. Bar attorneys say Eastman attempted to upend democracy by usurping the will of voters who rejected Trump and elected Joe Biden. Two memos Eastman wrote about how to keep Trump in power are among his bigger problems in the disbarment proceeding. Eastman claims his statements and writings about the election are protected free speech. Yet he doubted demonstrators would mobilize against him to exercise their own First Amendment rights. In the case of the relentless picketers, Eastman overestimates their desire for money — and his own popularity. [Trump's Santa Fe lawyer faces disbarment hearing]

Eastman knew Jeffrey Epstein through impeachment lawyer Bruce Castor and through Alan Dershowitz, also believed to be a pedophile. A Florida church has claimed the deed to the isolated Zorro Ranch outside of Stanley, New Mexico that Epstein purchased in 1993 now tied up in a court battle in Santa Fe and languishing on the market for $18 million. In a 2016 deposition Virginia Giuffre told a court that when she was sixteen Epstein madam, Ghislane Maxwell aided and abetted her rapes there. Giuffre went on to work for Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Today, Trump is a clear and present danger according to Judge J. Michael Luttig, a former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia.

Eastman’s phone could contain documents that would compel the feds to seize that property, too.

So much for the "rule of 3"-the informal S.Ct. practice that if 3 Justices think a case worthy of review, a 4th will vote to grant cert. Today the Court denied review in the several election cases over strong dissents from Justices Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch. https://t.co/CZ6ayHrR0S

— John Eastman (@DrJohnEastman) February 22, 2021

Heading to bed, but I predict Georgia will be too close to call, that Biden wins AZ and NV, and that Trump carries NC, Pennsylvania, Michigan, & Wisconsin, bringing him to 278. This is based on an extrapolation from current numbers by county and % still to be counted.

— John Eastman (@DrJohnEastman) November 4, 2020