The State Bar filed 11 disciplinary charges against former Chapman Law School Dean John Eastman Jan. 26 for “false” and “misleading” statements about election fraud, including some he made during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
“The 11 charges arise from allegations that Eastman engaged in a course of conduct to plan, promote, and assist then-President Donald Trump in executing a strategy, unsupported by facts or law, to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by obstructing the count of electoral votes of certain states,” the State Bar’s announcement of the charges reads.
California State Bar Chief Trial counsel George Cardona seeks to disbar Eastman, according