The California State Bar on Thursday charged John Eastman, an lawyer carefully allied with former President Donald Trump, with 11 disciplinary counts associated to his alleged scheme to overturn President Joe Biden‘s win within the 2020 election.

The Workplace of Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona intends to hunt Eastman’s disbarment, in accordance with a press release from the State Bar of California.

Eastman is charged with making false statements about purported election fraud, together with throughout a “cease the steal” rally exterior the White Home on Jan. 6, 2021. Eastman’s remarks “contributed” to scary a crowd of Trump’s followers to storm the U.S. Capitol so as to block Congress from confirming Biden’s electoral victory, the state bar alleges.

Eastman’s authorized workforce referred to as the disciplinary fees in opposition to Eastman “a part of a nationwide effort to make use of the bar self-discipline course of to penalize attorneys who opposed the present administration within the final Presidential election.”

“Dr. John Eastman, disputes ‘each facet’ of the motion that has been filed in opposition to him by the State Bar, which is predicated solely on his position as counsel to the previous President of the USA following the 2020 election,” Eastman’s lawyer, Randall A. Miller, mentioned within the press launch.

Eastman was the authorized architect of one in every of a number of efforts to overturn Trump’s loss to Biden. Eastman drafted paperwork advancing a doubtful authorized concept that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the ability to unilaterally refuse to certify Electoral Faculty votes for Biden from key swing states.

Pence, who presided over Congress’ efforts to verify Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021, refused to go together with that plan, regardless of strain from Trump.

Eastman didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s requests for remark.

The discover of fees in opposition to Eastman says that his proposed methods “had been unsupported by legislation, primarily based on false and deceptive assertions of reality, and designed for the aim of preserving Trump in workplace.”

Eastman allegedly “violated this responsibility in furtherance of an try and usurp the desire of the American individuals and overturn election outcomes for the best workplace within the land,” Cardona mentioned within the press launch.

The lawyer “should be held accountable,” Cardona mentioned.

Eastman, who has been admitted to apply legislation in California since 1997, “violated his obligations as an lawyer” by selling allegations of electoral fraud that he knew, or must have identified, had been false, the 35-page charging doc alleges.

He’s additionally accused of furthering a authorized view of Pence’s powers “that no cheap lawyer with experience in constitutional or election legislation would have concluded that the Vice President was legally approved to take.”

Eastman featured prominently in public shows of proof gathered by the Home choose committee investigating the Capitol riot. The committee voted to refer Trump to the Department of Justice for felony investigation earlier than it wrapped up its probe late final 12 months.