In a full day of testimony Wednesday in his ongoing disbarment trial, John Eastman described his counsel to then-President Donald Trump about the Jan. 6, 2021, electoral count as limited and nuanced, grounded in both history and reasonable constitutional theory.

Eastman told a California State Bar Court that in a Jan. 4, 2021, Oval Office meeting with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short and Pence counsel Gregory Jacob he never advocated for the vice president to reject certified electors from several swing states. Eastman said the topic only came up briefly—and wasn’t raised by him—during a nearly two-hour discussion of legal options surrounding the electoral vote count, and he agreed the U.S. Supreme Court would likely block such an action.

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