I'm Marissa Waugh, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare

for April 25, 2006.

On April 15th, the California Supreme Court officially disbarred John Eastman for his efforts

to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Eastman was found to have engaged in misconduct by peddling false election fraud claims,

and found to have violated professional ethics by pushing a scheme to block the electoral count. For today's archive, I chose an episode from August 5th, 2022,

in which Quinta Durecic and Paul Rosenzweig discussed the avenues of accountability for lawyers

who were involved in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

They also discussed how the legal discipline process works, and if the process is

effective in reasserting the truth.

I'm Quinta Jurassic, and this is the Lawfare podcast, August 5, 2022. Today we're bringing you another episode of our

Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem. A few weeks ago, we brought you a

conversation with two emergency room doctors about their efforts to push back against members of

their profession, spreading falsehoods about the coronavirus.

Today, we're going to take a look at another profession that's been struggling to counter lies

and falsehoods within its ranks. The law. Recently, lawyers involved in efforts to overturn

the 2020 election have faced professional discipline in a variety of forms, like Rudy Giuliani, whose law

license has been suspended temporarily in New York and D.C., while a New York ethics investigation

remains ongoing. Paul Rosenzweig is a contributing editor at Lawfare and sits on the board of

the 65 project, an organization that seeks to hold accountable lawyers

who worked to help Trump hold on to power in 2020, often by spreading lies.

Paul has also spent many years working on issues related to legal ethics.

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