Another Round at the Bar
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This Week In Democracy
'This Is a Big Deal'
In 2022, Washington, D.C. Bar officials?filed disciplinary charges?against Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official. They alleged that while he was working at the Justice Department in the final months of the Trump administration, Clark worked to help Trump try to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia—and violated his professional ethics obligations in the process.
On Thursday, the committee that heard evidence and arguments in his disciplinary trial?made a preliminary finding?that Clark had violated at least one attorney ethics rule. The decision puts Clark on a path to potential disbarment,?just as former Trump attorney John Eastman was recommended for in California last month.Accountability takes time, but it’s worth it. As States United Senior Counsel Gillian Feiner said simply in a statement to the press on Thursday:?
“No one is above the law.”
State of the States
In Wisconsin,?Gov. Tony Evers?filed a brief?urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide that clerks in the state may choose drop boxes as one option for safe, secure voting. Seeking to intervene in?Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Election Commission, Evers argued that the court's 2022 decision to ban most drop boxes should be reversed as Wisconsin’s election laws do not prohibit drop boxes. In March, the state Supreme Court?agreed to decide?whether their prior decision should be reversed.
“Drop box voting is safe and secure,”?Evers said in a statement. “In Wisconsin, we must work to protect that freedom and to empower our clerks and election administrators working hard at the local level to make decisions that are right for their communities.”
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