MAGA lawyer John Eastman's disbarment hearing took another turn Wednesday, revealing that key players considered telling former Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject the result of the 2020 election.
Eastman, a former lawyer for Trump, is facing 11 disciplinary counts in California including "failure to support the Constitution and laws of the United States. He wrote the infamous so-called "coup memo" that urged former Vice President Mike Pence to reject certified election results on Jan. 6, 2021
On Wednesday, legal affairs reporter Meghann Cuniff tweeted that Greg Jacob, the lawyer for Pence, revealed during testimony details of a Jan. 4 meeting in the Oval Office.
Clad in a maroon Heritage Foundation tie, he said he, Pence, Pence's chief of staff Marc Short, Eastman and Trump got together. "Eastman was proposing two actions, including unilateral rejection by Pence," said Cuniff.
Afterwards, Jacob said he wrote a memo for Pence about Eastman's suggestions, sending it at 9 a.m. the following morning. In it, Jacob explained why Eastman's theory was "unworkable."
Jacob said in an earlier comment that Donald Trump's lawyer Jenna Ellis suggested that Pence could go to Congress on Jan. 6 and simply refuse to open the envelopes that contained the Electoral College votes.
Jacob called it "clearly unconstitutional." "He definitely said it in a "what a moron" way, too," Cuniff reported.
"What he was asking us to do would've required departing from those procedures" in the Electoral Count Act and based on historical precedent, Jacob said, according to a tweet by NPR's investigative correspondent Tom Dreisbach.
