Greg Piper, Just the News
The legal establishment cheered when the California Supreme Court disbarred President Trump’s former lawyer John Eastman for concocting a scheme to present alternate, pro-Trump elector slates to then-Vice President Mike Pence in the 2020 election, deeming it an ethics violation, while Eastman portrayed the proceeding as a political prosecution.
A progressive watchdog launched a similar effort last week against acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging systemic ethics violations in his prosecution of an alleged MS-13 gang member that should cost Blanche his New York law license.
Now a conservative group is seeking to flip the script, asking New York to disbar an architect of the Biden administration’s scheme to prosecute allegedly peaceful pro-life activists under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s elimination of federal abortion rights.
Democracy Restored shared its ethics complaint against former Civil Rights Division trial attorney Sanjay Patel exclusively with Just the News before filing it Monday with the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Third Judicial Department, claiming Patel “put his politics above his oath” in his relations with abortion rights groups.