Litigation & Arbitration
Sep. 28, 2023
Law professor witness for Eastman disagrees on election validity
“I think the research I’ve done on this question provided support for the idea that … you could read the Constitution’s text and structure to reach the result that it’s the vice president who makes this decision about resolving disputes over electors,” testified UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo
A law professor witness for John C. Eastman, the former president’s attorney, testified on Wednesday that claims by Donald Trump’s re-election campaign of fraud in the 2020 election had no merit, and that Vice President Mike Pence had no authority to intervene in the electoral count on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Would it be fair to say that your view related to the 2020 election was that the claim of the Trump campaign that there was a dispute over el...
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