Since June, John Eastman has appeared intermittently in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom as lawyers for the California Bar built the case that he is unfit to practice law.

Eastman, the former dean of Chapman University’s law school and adviser to the former president

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Trump is accused of ethics violations for spreading false claims that fraud cost Trump the presidency.

Eastman claims he had good faith to doubt the outcome of the 2020 election. The man Eastman called as his first witness last week, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, has claimed the election was stolen, though his own turmoil-plagued investigation has found no evidence that fraud tipped the election toward Joe Biden opposed.

The witness, Michael Gableman, admitted he had no experience with voting rights when he was the Republican leader of the Wisconsin Assembly

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picked him in 2021 to lead a taxpayer-funded election campaign. Gableman has also admitted that he had no understanding of how elections work.

His fourteen-month investigation turned into a debacle that cost taxpayers more than $1 million and drew bipartisan ridicule. However, the report he produced alleged illegalities in the Wisconsin election

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Biden’s victory by 21,000 votes in the state has withstood multiple lawsuits, a recount shows

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and an impartial audit.

In his report and in his State Bar testimony, Gableman elaborated on the grant money Wisconsin municipalities had received from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

The money was intended to ease voting during the COVID-19 pandemic, and much of it went to Wisconsin’s five largest cities, often referred to in Gableman’s report as the Zuckerberg 5, in areas that lean Democratic.

Gableman’s report characterized it as a scheme to get Democrats elected and called it election bribery. However, the Center for Tech and Civic Life said it has awarded grants to all election offices that applied, which amounts to more than 200 across Wisconsin, large and small. And federal courts have repeatedly ruled that the subsidies do not violate the law.

Cross-examining Gableman during Eastman’s trial last week, Duncan Carling, an attorney representing the California State Bar, asked Gableman whether there had been successful legal challenges to the CTCL grants.

Not yet, Gableman replied.

Was he aware of any judicial findings?

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Center for Tech and Civic Life grants violate Wisconsin law?

Not yet, Gableman repeated.

Did Gableman find evidence that Wisconsin’s voting machines were manipulated for fraud purposes?

If I had found it, I would have put it in my report, he said.

Among his other claims, Gableman claimed that Wisconsin had no safeguards against that happening

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citizens do not vote.

He had found it. He found it

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citizens had

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in fact

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voted, he was asked?

It was impossible for us to conduct that investigation, Gableman said, claiming his investigation had been curtailed by politics.

In Wisconsin, Gableman’s partisan election review was plagued with controversy from start to finish. Contributing to costs: About $260,000 spent on court-ordered legal fees related to lawsuits brought by a liberal watchdog group. At one point, Gableman refused to answer questions in a Wisconsin court, and the judge found him in contempt for ignoring the state’s open records law.

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The lawsuit against the bar led to more than one reprimand from Judge Yvette Roland. Once she warned him to avoid a tirade. Another time she said, Don’t interrupt me or roll your eyes. If anyone knows how to behave in a courtroom, it’s you.

Eastman’s attorney argued for Gableman to be admitted as an expert on election law. Roland judged that he did not have this expertise.

Eastman’s live-streamed bar trial has been underway all summer, and he will continue to make his defense on Tuesday. The threat of suspension is not his only concern. Eastman, along with Trump and seventeen others, are facing criminal charges in Fulton County, Georgia, for election-related schemes.

Eastman has a GiveSendGo page, where he posts updates on his posts

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Attorney at the bar and accuses hard-core left-wing activists of targeting him. The page says he has raised $525,250, with a goal of $750,000.