If a few had been deluded into believing that America had moved past its lawfare era, that belief should have been shattered with last week’s news that California’s Supreme Court, the highest tribunal in the state, upheld John Eastman’s disbarment.
The Eastman story is a travesty of justice, made worse by the fact that his egregious situation is not a one-off, but follows a series of Trump-supporting attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Clark, and Ed Martin, who have been punished by bar associations nationwide simply for representing their client, Donald J. Trump.
The silver lining with the Eastman situation is that it is a reminder to all conservatives, particularly right-leaning attorneys and those who pay close attention to the justice system, about the long road still ahead for justice in America.
Far from moving beyond that dark chapter in American history, one that reached its apex under the Biden regime, America still is in the throes of this battle, whose outcome is yet determined, underscoring the dramatic stakes this nation faces.
Eastman, like Giuliani and Clark, was subject to disbarment – ruining his impeccable reputation and livelihood along the way – because he chose to represent Donald Trump and did so zealously and with complete respect for his client’s interests and for the rule of law.
The legal system in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election made a collective decision that certain legal topics were off the table for debate.
Chief among those topics was any discussion surrounding the 2020 race, which extended all the way from investigators looking to evaluate the evidence of widespread fraud to attorneys who advocated for legal theories in support of a view held by at least half the country that the 2020 election was, in fundamental respects, illegitimate.
But because now the window for allowable debate has been so constricted by the powers that be in the legal profession to issues that only they deem appropriate, the effect has been cataclysmic on the precept of fair and equitable justice, or the cornerstone of American liberty.
A legal system that has become a rank adversary of due process and attorney representation is one that is on the precipice of forfeiting its purpose outright.
The Left has taken a blowtorch to the bill of rights, exemplified in the cases of Eastman, Clark, and Giuliani, all of whom, as attorneys, represented their client on the basis of what the Constitution delineates, and the canons of legal professional ethics demands.
However, because the client they chose to represent held views the power brokers in the profession (at least who control the bar associations) deem odious, the professionals have made clear that the Constitution no longer applies in such cases.
In other words, a constitutional invocation is only permissible in cases where left wing persons and causes are supported. But God forbid someone on the right also advances their interests under the auspices of the Constitution, they may be subject to a disbarment if not a felony!
The Left has already made significant headway towards creating a chilling effect for all lawyers. The lawyer need not himself be a conservative or right-leaning; any principled moderate or even liberal, as Alan Dershowitz might attest, who still takes to heart the principles that are supposed to guide America’s legal system, and make it exceptional compared to other legal regimes, are subject to reprimand.
Putting aside having to retain a lawyer and spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in legal fees to clear one’s name – as occurred and is still ongoing for Eastman, Clark, and Giuliani – an indignity of epic proportions for any career lawyer.
But even the smaller penalties for attorneys who may not be as deep in the weeds as the three above-mentioned, but who nevertheless associate themselves with some cause deemed improper by Leftist advocates can be enough to deter anyone from taking a stand against injustice.
And the prospects of the profession do not fare so great. Most incoming law students, particularly at the nation’s top law schools, are overwhelmingly liberal.
Much like their undergraduate peers, they have been programmed to think only one way. But it’s insufficient for the system’s managers to learn that their foot soldiers are brainwashed to be liberal.
Not only must the next generation of lawyers be woke and liberal, but they must perceive alternative opinions which fall outside the range of their increasingly stifled worldview of acceptable opinions as wrong – meaning, immoral.
Differing thoughts, in the form of right-leaning views, are not just perceived as a misguided perspective by the ascendant generation of lawyers, but gravely immoral – and hence warranting expungement from the profession, by any and all means.
It is bad enough that most university students are indoctrinated to think this way; when lawyers, who are supposed to be officers for the courts and laws on which this republic is based, start also thinking in this manner – effectively abandoning the Constitution in toto – mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
Unfortunately, today, these new lawyers are getting the completely wrong message from judges, prosecutors, and bar associations who feed their vengeful desires about legal conservatives through the actions taken against men like John Eastman.
It is also the perfect exhibition of the two-tiered justice system: the John Eastmans of the world are getting disbarred, even under a Republican president, meanwhile the worst purveyors of lawfare, from judges like Juan Merchan, to district attorneys like Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis, to prosecutors like Jack Smith, and attorneys general like Merrick Garland, roam the halls of justice scot-free.
To even compare Eastman, a man of the highest integrity and recipient of the most venerable accolades of the legal profession, to the other names mentioned is a travesty of justice unto itself.
Eastman stood his neck out and paid steep costs for upholding the Constitution at its darkest hour in living memory.
Meanwhile, Fani Willis and Jack Smith made a mockery of that same Constitution, ripping to shreds its core principles and making a charade of America’s legal system.
Yet they remain in place in their cushy, powerful offices, largely unscathed from professional reprimand.
It is this tug of war between the powers of good, represented by Eastman, and evil, represented by those purveyors of weaponization, that will ultimately determine the lasting power of American justice.
We have reached an inflection point in our history where for the first time due process is on the chopping block.
Unless there is a great awakening for the legal profession, the justice system – and the rights, protections, immunities, and freedoms American justice uniquely makes possible – may become a relic of the past.
At which point no American will be spared the crisis of weaponization waging lawfare on anyone who holds an opinion counter to the professional class.
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