Trump’s ‘Co-Conspirator’ Eastman Asks California Bar Court To Suspend Disbarment Trial Amid Speculation He Could Be Charged by Jack Smith
In seeking a three-month delay, Eastman’s attorneys cited ‘the likelihood’ that formal charges will be brought against him by the special counsel.

Following the indictment of President Trump in the 2020 election case, one of the attorneys who helped him advance the theory that Vice President Pence could reject Electoral College votes, John Eastman, is asking the California State Bar Court to delay his disbarment proceedings amid expectations that he, too, could be indicted.
In a court filing made public on Monday, Mr. Eastman’s attorneys, Randall Miller and Zachary Mayer, asked that the court reassess the regulatory charges levied against him amid “the likelihood that formal charges will be brought against” Mr. Eastman in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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