Commentary If John Eastman were a radical leftist activist lawyer like the late William Kunstler, he would be celebrated around the land, as Kunstler was, even getting a cameo in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors.” Instead, Eastman is suffering a McCarthyite persecution simply for advising the president of the United States of the time, Donald Trump, on a constitutional matter during the January 6, 2021 disturbances at the Capitol. The latest comes in this Los Angeles Times headline, itself inaccurate, “John Eastman, Trump’s lawyer on overturning election, under investigation by California Bar.” In fact, Eastman did not want to “overturn” the 2020 presidential election, but to use the Constitutional process to reassess the election results to see if it was Trump or Joe Biden who won. Eastman wanted Vice President Mike Pence and the U.S. Congress, who were meeting that day to affirm the actions of the Electoral College, to take …