{"id":63632,"date":"2026-04-22T11:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63632"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:41:19","slug":"the-double-standard-is-still-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63632","title":{"rendered":"The Double Standard Is Still With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, Townhall<\/a> posted an article about John Eastman being disbarred by the California Supreme Court. In 2024, a judge on California\u2019s State Bar Court ordered John Eastman’s disbarment, but the decision was appealed. In the meantime, John Eastman was suspended from practicing law.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The California Supreme Court officially disbarred<\/a> President Donald Trump\u2019s former attorney, John Eastman, last week over his work assisting Trump to dispute the 2020 election results. Eastman merely provided options<\/a> for Trump to consider in a legal memo \u2014 some of which would have resulted in Joe Biden winning the election \u2014 and drafted and filed a brief for him in the election challenge Texas v. Pennsylvania<\/em>. In contrast, none of the attorneys involved in the 2000 election challenge representing Al Gore over \u201changing chads\u201d in Florida were disciplined.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Eastman’s background is impressive. He is the founding director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, a public-interest law firm affiliated with the Claremont Institute. He is a former professor and former professor and former dean at Chapman University School of Law. He is also a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At one point he was a frequent guest on the Hugh Hewitt radio show discussing the law and current issues. He is a very clear thinking lawyer. He is a man I would love to see on the Supreme Court. He should not have been disbarred, and I am sure the decision will be appealed.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Other leftist attorneys around the country are also getting free passes from state bars. Marc Elias, working with Perkins Coie, paid Fusion GPS to produce the Steele dossier and concealed the payment structure in FEC filings. The FEC fined the DNC and Clinton campaign for misreporting the payments as legal services. Special Counsel John Durham prosecuted Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI about whether he was representing the Clinton campaign. Sussmann was later a<\/a>cquitted<\/a>. Andrew Weissmann aggressively prosecuted<\/a> Arthur Andersen, destroying the company, but the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction. Critics accused Weissman of Brady violations \u2014 failing to disclose exculpatory evidence to the defense and eliciting false testimony from a key government witness. Other witnesses testified that they felt pressured by the prosecution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The disbarment of Eastman has set a terrible precedent. The law has been used to punish people merely for practicing their profession. Fortunately, the adults on the U.S. Supreme Court are likely to take his appeal. Although they only accept about 80 cases a year, they favor high-profile cases. This issue personally relates to them as lawyers, and Eastman is widely considered the top constitutional scholar on the right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have a lot of work to do to clean up our justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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