It has been a while since we have had news about Trump lawyers getting in trouble, but here we are again.
This week the ABA Journal reported that a panel in California has recommended disbarment for John Eastman: "Ex-Trump lawyer John Eastman has moved another step closer to disbarment, as a unanimous three-judge panel of the State Bar Court of California’s review department affirmed earlier findings that he was culpable of 10 counts of misconduct relating to his representation of President Donald Trump during and after the 2020 election." For the full story go here.
Meanwhile, today the Legal Profession Blog and The Hill are reporting that the New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department has disbarred Kenneth Chesebro. As The Hill reports:
Ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who helped devise President Trump’s alternate electors strategy in 2020, has been disbarred in New York.
A panel of judges on the Appellate Division — New York’s midlevel appeals court — ruled Thursday that Chesebro’s guilty plea in Georgia’s probe of efforts to subvert the state’s 2020 election results qualifies as a “serious crime,” a finding that begets disciplinary action.
The panel wrote that Chesebro’s guilty plea on one felony count of conspiracy to commit filing false documents is “unquestionably serious.”
“On that basis alone, respondent’s conduct brings into question his integrity and fitness to continue engaging in the practice of law in New York,” the decision reads.
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