In 1989, prior to attending law school, Eastman served as the director of Congressional and public affairs at the United States Commission on Civil Rights. During his time in law school, Eastman worked on the University of Chicago Law Review. He then earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Government from the Claremont Graduate School. 3.2.3.1 Congressional and FBI/DOJ investigationsĮastman graduated from the Dallas-area Lewisville High School and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Dallas.3.2.2 Actions during the January 6th attack on the Capitol.3.2.1 Legal strategies to reject electoral votes.2.3 California Attorney General campaign.Carter found Eastman, along with Trump, was more likely than not to have "dishonestly conspired to obstruct the joint session of Congress on Jan. On March 28, 2022, federal judge David O. On January 13, 2021, Eastman retired from the Chapman University faculty after the controversy created by his having spoken at the Trump rally. Eastman subsequently implored Vice President Pence to violate the Electoral Count Act to delay certification of the election, via Pence's legal counsel Greg Jacob, who responded by calling Eastman a "serpent in the ear of the president of the United States". On January 6, 2021, Eastman presented a speech at the White House Trump rally that preceded the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Eastman also sent to Republican senator Mike Lee a six-point plan of action for Pence to throw out the electors from seven states to keep Trump in power, which Lee rejected. Eastman was a key participant in the subsequent attempts to overturn the election during President Donald Trump's last efforts before the certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, Eastman incorrectly told Vice President Mike Pence in an Oval Office meeting, on January 5, 2021, that Pence had the constitutional authority to block the certification. Vice President Kamala Harris was not an American citizen and thus not legally eligible for the position.
He is a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.ĭuring the 2020 United States presidential campaign, Eastman wrote a controversial op-ed in August 2020 that falsely suggested the then-presumed Democratic nominee for U.S. He ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for California's 34th congressional district in 1990, and for the office of California Attorney General in 2010. He is a former professor and dean at the Chapman University School of Law. John Charles Eastman is an American lawyer who is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public interest law firm affiliated with the conservative think tank Claremont Institute.
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