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The Capitol mob didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a response to the concerted attack on 2020’s election results crafted by elite right-wing politicians, academics, and attorneys. No law professor played a bigger role in Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election than John Eastman. As the president’s actual attorneys backed away from his coup, Eastman rushed in to fill the void, attempting to bolster the scheme with incoherent legal theories. When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged the Supreme Court to overturn the election by nullifying millions of votes, it was Eastman who intervened on Trump’s behalf to endorse Paxton’s suit. When Trump exhorted Vice President Mike Pence to award him a second term by unilaterally disqualifying electoral votes, it was Eastman who advised Pence that he could, indeed, throw the election to Trump. And when Trump needed a putative legal scholar to lend credence to his pre-insurrection rally, he brought out Eastman to deliver a speech
Struppa was under pressure from faculty to oust Eastman, prompting him to say he could not because of the professor s tenure. A petition condemning Eastman for his role in filing a legal brief before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the election results drew support from 159 faculty.
In an interview Monday, Eastman told City News Service he was undecided about whether to continue his association with Chapman. That will be decided whether I want to continue to work with these people or not it s an open question, Eastman said. What I said at the rally last week was true, Eastman continued in the City News Service interview, repeating claims that votes were flipped on electronic voting machines, which a multitude of election officials have disputed and judges have dismissed.