Republicans Back Ex-Trump Attorney Eastman at Tea Party Dinner

Published on May 28, 2024

BURLINGAME, Calif.—Nearly 200 conservatives rallied around embattled constitutional scholar and attorney John Eastman at a Tea Party dinner May 18. Mr. Eastman, a former attorney of former President Donald Trump, recounted the political backlash he has received for questioning the integrity of the 2020 presidential election and how he fell prey to “lawfare.” The well-respected former dean of Chapman Law School pointed out several examples of alleged illegalities in the election and compared the retaliation against him to the old English law of seditious libel for which truth was not legal defense for claims against the crown. “If you criticized the government, you could be prosecuted for seditious libel, and truth was not a defense because the greater the truth, the greater the libel, the greater the harm to government,” he told the crowd at a restaurant a few miles from the California Republican Party convention, where Lara Trump was the keynote speaker....

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