by Daniel Greenfield
Corrupt California State Bar which protected corrupt lawyers, targeting Trump's lawyer.
Corrupt. Totalitarian. Par for the course.
I was privileged to listen to John Eastman speak twice and lay out his case at David Horowitz Freedom Center events, including at the Restoration Weekend in New Orleans and at an event in Los Angeles. Both times, Eastman spoke compellingly about what he had gone through in the lawfare campaign to destroy him for representing Trump.
That includes the California bar’s effort to disbar him. An effort that has at least temporarily succeeded.
A California judge on Wednesday recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
State Bar Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip Eastman’s license to practice law in the state over “false and misleading statements” about purported election fraud and his role in “provoking” the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
This is the work of an abusive kangaroo court and a political appointee.
Yvette Roland, who had specialized in employment law, as a president of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, had been appointed to the State Bar Court by former Speaker Toni Atkins, whose main claim to fame was being the first lesbian in that position, and who tried to climb to the governorship on her record of Trump bashing.
Judge Yvette Roland donated to Kamala Harris in the past, as well as Obama. She’s a partisan Democrat handing down a partisan ruling that penalizes political opposition.
It’s par for the course in California, which has become a totalitarian one-party state, not so much because of a disproportionate demographic political tilt, as because the state became a test lab for leftists using every possible tool to suppress the opposition. Now that’s going nationwide.
Eastman will appeal, but the point here is intimidation as much as anything else.
Now the California State Bar Court has itself been notoriously enmeshed in scandals and been accused of corruption.
The State Bar of California has failed to effectively discipline corrupt attorneys, allowing lawyers to repeatedly violate professional standards and harm members of the public, according to a long-awaited audit of the agency released Thursday.
The audit of the State Bar was ordered last year by the Legislature in the wake of a Los Angeles Times investigation that documented how the now-disgraced attorney Tom Girardi cultivated close relationships with the agency and kept an unblemished law license despite over 100 lawsuits against him or his firm — with many alleging misappropriation of client money.
Earlier this month, a Chicago law firm accused Girardi and other lawyers at his defunct firm of running “the largest criminal racketeering enterprise in the history of plaintiffs’ law,” pocketing millions from clients, vendors and fellow attorneys.
That Girardi’s serial misconduct went unchecked for decades has forced a reckoning among the legal establishment. In addition to the State Bar’s acknowledgement of past mistakes, the agency has also been conducting a broad investigation into whether its own employees or other agency insiders helped Girardi skirt scrutiny. That investigation is ongoing, Duran confirmed.
Until recently, this was all playing out with allegations of RICO violations by the State Bar and million-dollar gifts.
Disbarred Los Angeles lawyer Tom Girardi funneled more than $1 million in gifts and payments to an investigator at the State Bar of California and the investigator’s wife, a USC accounting professor, according to a report released Friday.
The long-anticipated report, the result of a year-and-a-half investigation by a law firm working for the State Bar’s governing board, detailed how Girardi cultivated and sustained an “extensive network of connections at all levels” of the agency tasked with regulating California’s legal profession and described corruption beyond what is publicly known.
The law firm’s investigation also documented how numerous State Bar officials with close ties to Girardi killed complaints that came into the agency or improperly closed cases about the lawyer’s alleged misconduct.
After failing to take action against lawyers who were allegedly committing massive fraud, the State Bar went after John Eastman for… having the wrong politics.
That’s the California Democratic machine in a nutshell.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is
an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and
Islamic terrorism.
Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/kamala-donor-judge-disbars-john-eastman-for-representing-trump/
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