State Bar & Bar Associations
Sep. 13, 2023
Vice president can resolve election disputes, Yoo testifies
“Most everyone agrees that it’s ambiguous, and that there’s no definitive answer from the text, and there’s no precedent,” John Yoo, a law professor at Berkeley, testified in John C. Eastman’s State Bar trial.
UC Berkeley constitutional law professor John Yoo defended former Donald Trump attorney John C. Eastman’s position that the president of the Senate has the authority to resolve electoral disputes in State Bar Court testimony on Tuesday.
“The role of the vice president being able to entertain challenges to the legitimacy of electoral votes had support, as I’ve said before,” Yoo told Eastman’s attorney, Randall A. Miller. “In fact, if you lo...
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