Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday that the lawsuits against constitutional lawyer John Eastman in Georgia and Arizona should not proceed, saying Eastman was simply doing “what a lawyer is supposed to do.” .
After a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia handed down an indictment in August, Eastman drafted a legal document arguing that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to reject electoral votes. , was one of those indicted along with President-elect Donald Trump. 2023. This concerns President Trump’s efforts to contest the 2020 election results in the state. Dershowitz said that although he disagrees with Eastman, whom he met at Saturday’s event at Mar-a-Lago, Eastman should not have been prosecuted in either Georgia or Arizona. (Related article: ‘Smart but wrong’: Alan Dershowitz explains judge’s ‘unconstitutional’ ruling in Trump business documents case)
“I said John Eastman should not be prosecuted because he had a different view of the election. Eastman honestly believed the election was stolen,” Darsho said. Witts said. “I didn’t. I thought the election was won fairly and squarely by Joe Biden. I thought the Pennsylvania vote was unconstitutional, even though the Pennsylvania vote was discounted. In my opinion, it wasn’t enough to overturn the election. [to] Donald Trump. Reasonable people can disagree with it or agree with it. ”
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In March 2024, a California judge recommended that Eastman be disqualified from representing Trump in legal challenges to the 2020 election results. Dershowitz said that Abraham Lincoln almanac He cross-examined witnesses and secured his client’s acquittal of murder charges.
“It turned out that Lincoln had given him the wrong yearbook,” Dershowitz said. “There was a full moon on the night he claimed to have seen, but on another calendar in a different year, there was no full moon. Some people might be disbarred from practicing law for doing that. .”
Lincoln’s yearbook was real According to to the New York Times.
“What John Eastman did was state his view on the law and, if there was a dispute within the state as to whether the election was properly conducted, an alternative slate of electors should the court rule. ‘That your side won.’ At least today the electors are ready. The electors have been counted,” Dershowitz said. (Related: John Eastman warns of attempts to ‘suppress’ representation with ‘election challenges’)
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