Another Trump Ally Faces the Music

Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the administration of former President Donald Trump, is facing potential disbarment over his alleged efforts to overturn Trump's 2020 election loss.

The District of Columbia Bar's three-member Board on Professional Responsibility issued a preliminary finding on Thursday that Clark violated at least one ethics rule and should face disciplinary action that could include sanctions or the termination of his law license, according to Reuters.

The panel's decision is nonbonding and will need to be fully approved and confirmed by a D.C. appeals court before any disciplinary action can be taken. While sanctions could vary, D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel Hamilton "Phil" Fox has argued in favor of disbarring the former Trump lawyer.

Clark's lawyer has reportedly denied that any rules were broken, arguing that the matter instead concerns an "internal dispute" concerning the election at the DOJ after Trump's defeat.

In response to an emailed request for comment to Clark's lawyer, Newsweek was pointed to a statement from Russell Vought, a former Trump administration official who founded and currently serves as the president of the conservative advocacy group Center for Renewing America.

"This gross miscarriage of justice—the attempted ethics 'discipline' of a top-level DOJ lawyer for doing his job and telling the truth—has never happened before in U.S. history," Vought said. "This sham trial also proves how scared the Deep State is of competent, conservative, top-level lawyers. This is not only about pointing out obvious 2020 election issues, but about keeping them on the sidelines for 2024.

"Jeff Clark is a brave patriot, brilliant legal mind, and we are proud he is a part of all the paradigm-shifting work we are doing at the Center for Renewing America," he added. "Jeff won't back down against these attacks and neither will we."

Clark, who is also facing two criminal charges in the Georgia election subversion case, allegedly attempted to use his position at the DOJ to promote the false notion that the 2020 election was rife with massive fraud and keep Trump in power using the so-called "fake electors" plot.

While Clark's role at the DOJ did not involve election issues, he allegedly drafted a letter to falsely inform Georgia officials that the DOJ "identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states." The letter was rejected by DOJ leadership.

In Fulton County, Georgia last year, Clark was indicted alongside Trump and 17 other co-defendants. The former DOJ official was charged with felony counts of violating the state's RICO act and criminally attempting to make false statements and writings. He pleaded not guilty to both counts.

The potential disciplinary action against Clark comes one week after John Eastman, another former Trump lawyer and Clark's co-defendant in Georgia, was recommended for disbarment by a judge in California over similar post-2020 election concerns.