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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jul. 15, 2025

John Eastman, the president and the State Bar: A modern Icarus?

Unpacking the State Bar Court of California's Review Department's recent recommendation that John Eastman, a constitutional law scholar who briefly worked for U.S. President Donald Trump, be disbarred.

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John Eastman, the president and the State Bar: A modern Icarus?
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It is not every day that the three-judge panel of the State Bar Court of California's Review Department recommends that a former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas be disbarred. John Eastman was a constitutional law scholar, a law school dean and founder of the