Soon after his "are you outa your effing mind?" conversation with Hershmann, Eastman asked that he be included among President Trump's pardons.
The request was denied.
John Eastman observed by DtB over the years:
SOCCCD trustees are advised to hire Chapman U's John Eastman to represent them in their efforts to protect district religious invocations
Yoo is so wrong! - DtB, April 15, 2009
John Yoo and John Eastman debating one side of the issue of national security and the use of torture (Yoo and Eastman are pro-torture)
More on Don Wagner’s Balboa Bay Club “kick-off” event - DtB, Sept 30, 2009
John Eastman joins others in supporting then SOCCCD trustee Don Wagner’s bid for 70th AD Assemblyman
[K]reeps and demagogues in Newport Beach - DtB, Oct 15, 2009
Then SOCCCD trustee Tom Fuentes and John Eastman join other creeps—including Gary Kreep—at the Western Conservative Political Action Conference
To be followed by a fine minstrel show - DtB, Oct 21, 2009
“Tom Fuentes is organizing another of the [Claremont] Institute's popular cigar smokers at the Balboa Bay Club.” Featuring Chapman's U's John Eastman.
Don Wagner and LA County’s tiny golden cross - DtB, Oct 31, 2009
John Eastman and then-SOCCCD trustee Don Wagner join others attorneys in defending the blatant non-separation of church and state on LA County’s seal
Praying man v. "atheist professor" and "leftist secular group" - DtB, Nov 25, 2009
John Eastman represents Don Wagner in his so-called “defense of religious freedom” (against dastardly atheist faculty at SOCCCD, including yours truly)
Chapman faculty slam John Eastman - DtB, Aug 18, 2020
Voice of OC: “More than 200 Chapman University faculty are demanding that school officials recommit themselves publicly to diversity and inclusion reforms, responding to a fellow professor’s [John Eastman’s] viral op-ed that questioned whether Democratic vice presidential pick, Kamala Harris, could legally become president over her parents’ citizenship status despite being born in the U.S. Faculty in an online Change.org petition called the op-ed “poorly argued, inaccurate, and racist.”
Amid controversy, Eastman retires - DtB, Jan 13, 2021
CBS: “Eastman came under fire Jan. 6 after he appeared on stage with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at a “Stop the Steal” rally. The pair urged supporters of the president to head to the Capitol.”
Eastman's out - DtB, Jan 14, 2021
OC Reg: “On Jan. 7, in an interview, Eastman described the march as ‘a wonderful rally of people that were there to express their views that what they saw on Election Day was not right.’ … The New York Times has since reported that Eastman was in the Oval Office with Trump the day before the Capitol riot, arguing to Vice President Mike Pence that Pence had the power to block certification of Biden’s Electoral College victory. Other constitutional experts and members of congress have pointed out that the vice president has no such power….”
Washington Post, Jun 17, 2022:
What John Eastman and ‘the pardon list’ means
It’s been reported on, whispered about and hinted at since the dust was still settling on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol: There was an effort afoot to pardon key players in the GOP attempt to overturn the 2020 election. On Thursday, the Jan. 6 committee put some meat on the bones. It disclosed an email that showed that none other than the Trump lawyer who led the plot, John Eastman, sought to be put on what he called “the pardon list” shortly after Jan. 6.
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The way Eastman made the request also was crucial: He didn’t just say he was seeking a pardon; he indicated in the email to fellow Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that there was a known “pardon list” circulating. That suggests that the plotters weighed the possible need for pardons in some considerable measure — that those who led the effort to overturn the election believed they might have enough legal liability that they floated the extraordinary step of obtaining rare, preemptive presidential pardons.
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At Thursday’s hearing, Greg Jacob, who was general counsel to Vice President Mike Pence, added to the evidence that Eastman knew what he was doing was illegal. He said Eastman conceded to him that his plot to overturn the election would have lost 9-0 at the Supreme Court, on the merits. But he said Eastman believed the court might punt on the merits and stay out of the dispute altogether.
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We still don’t know how extensive the pardon deliberations were. But what we do know — based on early reporting and on the evidence Thursday — is that people were pretty scared that what they had done could come back to bite them. What’s more, the Eastman email seems to be on top of other evidence to which the committee previously alluded, other evidence from “former White House personnel.” So there’s surely more to come.
