Judge recommends Trump election lawyer John Eastman is disbarred [Video]

A California judge has recommended that one of the architects behind former President Donald Trump’s election takeover scheme, attorney John Eastman, be disbarred.

In a scathing 128-page opinion, Judge Yvette Roland argued that Mr Eastman’s law licence be revoked after months of testimony and arguments about his legal theories. She found that he violated ethics rules and possibly the law.

Mr Eastman is set to appeal the decision to a panel of judges, the following step being taking the matter to the State Supreme Court. During his appeal, he cannot practise law in California.

“Eastman failed to uphold his primary duty of honesty and breached his ethical obligations by presenting falsehoods to bolster his legal arguments,” she wrote of his efforts to claim that Mr Trump had the election stolen from him …