John Eastman, the Orange County conservative who will be forever linked to Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, goes to trial in Los Angeles next week in an effort to keep his California law license.

The highly anticipated hearing, expected to take two weeks, pits two views of Eastman’s actions in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, electoral vote count. It also puts on trial the reputation of the state bar’s disciplinary system, already battered by revelations that the agency failed to act on decades of complaints against Tom Girardi.

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