A nonpartisan election integrity group is demanding an investigation into whether John Eastman, the conservative legal scholar who mapped out a potential plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to steal the 2020 election for Trump, engaged in professional misconduct.
“A nonpartisan election integrity group is demanding an investigation into whether John Eastman,…”
In the United States lawyers are effectively immune from sanctions for misconduct. Even furthering a coup meant to void an election and topple the government won’t result in sanctions that amount to more than a slap on the wrist.
Around one-quarter of one percent (that’s 0.23 percent) of the nearly 1.3 million practicing lawyers in the U.S. are publicly disciplined for ethical misconduct each year.
The most common form of public discipline is suspension, followed by disbarment.
Those stats are from the ABA 2020 Profile of the Legal Profession.
“In 2018 [the most recent year with available data], 2,872 lawyers were publicly disciplined for misconduct in 45 states and the District of Columbia,” says the report. “That represents roughly one-quarter of 1 percent of all practicing lawyers with active licenses in those states.”
The data comes from the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, which collects, analyzes and compiles statistics about lawyer discipline and regulation nationwide.
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Obviously wish Mrs. DeSantis well but we all know that her surgeon and the nurses who attend to her are mandated to wear masks.
Okay, I’ve finally figured out Sinema’s complete tone-deafness. She is a vampire goose. She’s a goose, because she wakes up in a new world every day. She’s a vampire because she must not be reflected in physical mirrors as well as metaphorical mirrors.
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Can our British readers please explain what Boris Johnson’s trying to do here?
From what I’ve seen on Twitter from the UK, they don’t seem to understand this, either.
What the hell is Boris eating?
::shrug::
ETA: It’s not Brexit crow. Yet.
Encouraging a president to steal an election and overthrow a republic that’s lasted for two centuries and more is, I suppose, a form of political speech. It’s also a form of political speech to say, “You should lock the doors of the orphanage and then burn it down, because I don’t like the director’s political views.” But I think whether it’s misconduct is still a question it would be appropriate to consider.
Is whatever he’s eating there battered nudge nudge wink wink? Like that would be a very creaky and doomed to failure attempt at humor? I can’t think of another explanation. He’s a flake, that one.
a roasted Trafalgar Square pigeon?
Truly scary shit
If you’re going to take over the administrative state and deconstruct it, then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediately," Bannon said in a telephone interview with NBC News. "I gave 'em fire and brimstone.
I refuse to find Steve Bannon and his sophomoric fantasies scary.
I’d go with fish and chips and the act as an insincere effort to establish his Englishness and connection to the common man.
You Pretty MucH have TO steAL a cliENTs moneY TO get DisbarrED whICH makes this CLAIM that he shOULD be disbaRREd because hE WROTE faKE news couPING memO whICH was jusT INterpretatION of sacred CONStitution document.
Boris Johnson is an ass (or is it an arse?). His appearance, demeanor, and conduct makes me wonder whether he was fathered by TFG.
Bannon is scum.
- New York Times opinion writer Michelle Goldberg’s latest column has an incredible anecdote about Sinema organizing a protest against then-Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) in 2003, whom she called “a shame to Democrats.”
- “I don’t even know why he’s running,” Sinema said at the time. “He seems to want to get Republicans voting for him — what kind of strategy is that?”
Apparently one that. in retrospect, you’ve found intriguing. Maybe it works, no? [/s]
No. It didn’t work for Joe and it won’t work for you.
The morning memo format is slowly killing TPM. It is hard to follow that many unrelated stories at once. Please replace the morning memo format.
At least someone gets it.
Sure, it was a novel argument, but if we didn’t have creative lawyers looking for new ways to interpret laws, there would be no point to ever reviewing the laws in the first place.
Libtards are just scared because they know that the lawyer was right, and that his arguments would have held up in court.
Eastland can exercise his First Amendment rights. However, as an attorney, he also has ethical obligations that he must follow if he wants to keep his license. Sometimes the two conflict and there are consequences.