John Eastman Pleads First Amendment Protections in Disbarment Appeal

California Bar Appeals Panel Hears Appeal Over Disbarment of Trump’s Former Attorney John Eastman | March 20, 2025

A panel of three judges with the Review Department at the State Bar of California, which is the appellate level for the bar, heard oral arguments on Wednesday in John Eastman’s appeal of a bar disciplinary judge disbarring the former Trump attorney.

John Eastman Pleads First Amendment Protections in Disbarment Appeal

In oral arguments Wednesday, the former Chapman University Law School dean repeated disputed claims that Vice President Mike Pence could have stopped the 2020 Electoral College count. Eastman "didn't tell his lies in a vaccum" and caused public harm, a prosecutor said.