John Eastman, the former Donald Trump lawyer and possible future Trump co-defendant, has added the potential loss of his California law license to his list of troubles.
If the state plucks Eastman’s license, that could put the former Justice Clarence Thomas clerk’s Supreme Court bar membership in further jeopardy as well. As it happens, on the subject of fringe election efforts, he’s lead counsel on a Supreme Court amicus brief — meaning a brief filed by an outside party not directly involved in the case — supporting North Carolina Republicans and the so-called independent state legislature theory in Moore v. Harper.
The most extreme version of the theory, popular among Trump allies, could radically change elections in the United States, giving outsize power to state legislatures over federal elections. So, amazingly then, we have an architect of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election telling the Supreme Court how elections ought to be run.
So while the justices…
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