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John
Eastman
is
in
his
martyr
era.
Two
years
ago,
California
Bar
Court
Judge
Yvette
Roland
recommended
he
be
disbarred
for
his
role
in
the
plot
to
overturn
the
2020
election.
Eastman’s
adult
children
responded
with
a
hilariously
over-the-top
screed
in
Glenn
Beck’s
The
Blaze
comparing
their
father
to
Jesus
on
the
cross,
with
the
Roland
cast
as
Judas
Iscariot.
His
GiveSendGo
page
—
where
he
details
his
personal
stations
of
the
cross
and
has
raked
in
over
a
million
from
the
faithful
—
describes
the
attorney
discipline
proceedings
as
“my
own
Triduum.”
On
Wednesday,
the
betrayal
was
complete.
The
Pharisees,
AKA
the
California
Supreme
Court,
upheld
Judge
Roland’s
findings.
Eastman’s
name
has
been
stricken
from
the
roll
of
attorneys,
effective
immediately.
He’s
also
been
hit
with
a
$5,000
sanction,
which
seems
like
something
of
a
rounding
error
given
the
fundraising,
but
fine.
“While
it
may
seem
a
little
heavy-handed
to
compare
the
work
of
Eastman
and
others
to
the
passion
and
death
of
Jesus
Christ,
a
little
reflection
can
make
clear
the
connections,”
the
Eastman
kids
insist.
“Jesus
was
betrayed
and
unjustly
condemned
because
he
preached
a
gospel
message
that
was
contrary
to
the
desires
of
the
ruling
class
of
his
time.
Eastman
has
been
betrayed
and
indicted
for
speaking
up
about
election
illegality
and
fraud,
contrary
to
the
desires
of
the
political
establishment
and
the
mainstream
media.”
Not
exactly.
Their
sainted
papa
didn’t
just
push
an
aggressive-but-arguably-defensible
legal
theory
and
lose.
He
peddled
legal
arguments
he
knew
with
certainty
would
not
hold
up
under
scrutiny,
conceding
to
Mike
Pence’s
legal
advisor
Greg
Jacob
that,
were
the
scheme
to
reach
the
Supreme
Court,
it
would
fail
9-0.
And
he
took
pains
to
ensure
that
they
never
got
anywhere
near
a
federal
judge.
“The
main
thing
here
is
that
Pence
should
do
this
without
asking
for
permission
–
either
from
a
vote
of
the
joint
session
or
from
the
Court,”
he
wrote
in
one
of
his
infamous
memos.
Even
after
rioters
had
overrun
the
Capitol,
delaying
certification
of
Biden’s
win,
Eastman
urged
that
Pence
should
stay
the
proceedings,
for
“one
more
relatively
minor
violation”
of
the
Electoral
Count
Act.
Judge
David
Carter
called
Eastman’s
counsel
“a
coup
in
search
of
a
legal
theory”
and
abrogated
attorney-client
privilege
under
the
crime-fraud
exception.
And
yet,
Eastman
cries
that
he
is
a
poor
victim
of
the
evil,
woke
elite.
“This
partisan
weaponization
of
the
bar
disciplinary
process–not
just
against
me
but
hundreds
of
others,
including
current
Department
of
Justice
lawyers,
is
a
serious
threat
to
the
legal
profession,
because
one
of
its
very
purposes
is
to
discourage
other
lawyers
from
taking
on
controversial
causes
or
clients
—
controversial
to
the
leftist/Marxist
elites,
that
is,”
he
insists,
vigorously
shaking
his
tin
cup.
“Filing
a
cert
petition
with
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
and
then,
hopefully,
getting
a
chance
to
have
the
case
heard
on
the
merits,
is
going
to
be
expensive,
perhaps
$1/4
million
or
more.”
[sic,
and
lolwut?]
Oh,
dear!
What
will
poor
John
Eastman
do
with
only
an
endless
stream
of
FedSoc
events,
podcasts,
wingnut
welfare
fellowships,
and
Ginny
Thomas
speaking
gigs
to
sustain
him?
Naturally,
Jeff
“the
Oil
Spill”
Clark
has
thoughts.
“He
did
what
lawyers
are
supposed
to
do
—
represent
disfavored
individuals,”
Clark
tweeted.
“And
make
no
mistake,
the
elites,
especially
in
bar
apparatuses,
disfavor
and
hate
President
Trump
and
anyone
associated
with
him
with
a
burning
passion.”
Clark,
an
extremely
non-elite
graduate
of
Harvard
and
Georgetown,
served
as
head
of
the
DOJ’s
Civil
Division
in
the
aftermath
of
the
2020
election.
He
urged
his
colleagues
to
send
letters
to
swing
state
legislatures
falsely
claiming
to
have
found
evidence
of
vote
fraud,
and
he’s
been
fighting
his
own
disbarment
proceedings
in
DC
for
two
years
now.
Send
cash!
Meanwhile,
Eastman
vows
to
appeal
to
the
Supreme
Court,
where
his
onetime
boss,
Justice
Thomas,
may
be
able
to
do
him
a
solid.
Blessed
are
the
martyrs,
for
they
shall
inherit
the
cert
petition.
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Dye produces
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