A panel in Washington has recommended that Jeffrey Clark, one of former President Donald Trump’s officials in the Justice Department, face a two-year suspension from practicing law because of his role in the administration’s response to the 2020 presidential election.
In an Aug. 1 report, a three-member panel of the District of Columbia Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility said that Mr. Clark “attempted dishonesty and did so with truly extraordinary recklessness.”
It pointed to his letter asking Georgia election officials to convene a special session to deal with alleged fraud and irregularities following the 2020 election.
“At the eleventh hour of the Trump administration, he sought to take over responsibility for investigations into election matters, and relying on what was, at best, a fraction of the information any reasonable attorney would expect to act on, to insist on sending a letter—with significant false and misleading statements—to officials in the State of Georgia, urging extraordinary action to intervene in the electoral process,” read the report, which came from the board’s hearing committee….