Scumbag MAGA lawyer John Eastman on Wednesday filed a lengthy response to the California Bar Association’s misconduct charges against him, defending his actions to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election as proper practice but at the end requesting that the proceedings be delayed until he’s no longer under federal criminal investigation so he doesn’t have to plead the Fifth.
“To the extent Respondent is under threat of criminal prosecution, implicating his Fifth Amendment rights, abatement of the disciplinary proceeding is arguably necessary to protect his rights and is within the Bar Court’s discretion to order,” Eastman wrote, raising the interesting pickle that he’s in, defending his license to practice law after having had his phone seized by the FBI executing a search warrant and been exposed as having requested a presidential pardon (which he didn’t get).