Legal professional John Eastman speaks upcoming to U.S. President Donald Trump’s individual attorney Rudy Giuliani, as Trump supporters collect in advance of the president’s speech to contest the certification by the U.S. Congress of the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election on the Ellipse in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim… Acquire Licensing Rights
Oct 20 (Reuters) – A previous judge on a U.S. federal appeals courtroom and California’s maximum court docket vouched on Friday for the character of Donald Trump’s ex-personal attorney John Eastman during his disciplinary trial in California.
Janice Rogers Brown, who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 2005 to 2017, described Eastman as “extremely very careful and meticulous,” and eager to interact with opposing views.
“I really do not often concur with him, but he usually has support for the arguments that he is producing,” Brown testified. But she added that she has never worked with Eastman, nor did he ever show up ahead of her as a judge.
Prior to her appointment to the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush, Brown was an affiliate justice on the California Supreme Court.
The State Bar of California is looking for to strip Eastman of his legislation license, arguing that his attempts to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s victory around former Republican president Trump throughout the 2020 presidential election was unsupported by law or precedent and ran opposite to U.S. values.
Brown’s testimony as a character witness for Eastman arrives in close proximity to the tail conclude of his California State Bar Court docket disciplinary trial, which has spanned five months.
The court docket is expected to listen to closing arguments from Eastman’s lawyers and prosecutors from the Condition Bar of California in either late October or early November.
Eastman, a former regulation professor at Chapman University in California, drafted legal memos suggesting then-Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to acknowledge electoral votes for Biden from various swing states when Congress convened to certify the 2020 vote depend. Pence rebuffed his arguments, expressing he did not have lawful authority.
All over the demo, Eastman has constantly defended his actions, arguing that his authorized theories have been viable and sophisticated in superior religion.
Eastman had earlier tried out to tap Brown as an pro witness who would argue that the state bar’s expenses from him were unparalleled. Nevertheless, Judge Yvette Roland of the California Point out Bar Court docket rejected Eastman’s bid in Might.
Brown, now a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley College of Law, was instead identified as by Eastman’s lawful workforce as one of a handful of character witness.
Eastman is separately one particular of 18 Trump allies who were being criminally billed in August together with the previous president with violating racketeering and other laws in their endeavours to obstacle the 2020 election effects in Georgia.
Two other lawyers who were billed alongside Eastman — Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell — each pleaded guilty to legal prices in Fulton County this 7 days.
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Reporting by David Thomas
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