Jeffrey Clark's Georgia mugshot (Image: Fulton Country Sheriff)
The Washington D.C. Bar Association suspended former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark from practicing law for two years for helping the former president attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
According to the Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility, he was charged with “attempted dishonesty and attempted serious interference with the administration of justice, in violation of the District of Columbia Rules of Professional Conduct, arising from his efforts to cause the United States Department of Justice to send a letter to elected officials in Georgia expressing the Department of Justice’s purported concern about various issues relating to the 2020 Presidential election.”
Clark’s letter, which had been addressed to Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Georgia), state House Speaker David Ralston and President Pro Tempore of the Senate Butch Miller, claimed to announce a formal Justice Department investigation into the “irregularities” in Georgia’s 2020 election, although no such inquiry existed.
Clark wrote that the Justice Department had significant “concerns” regarding the integrity and results of the election. He then demanded that the Georgia legislature be called to order to decide the legitimacy of competing slates of electors.
A three-member committee of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility pointed out that the ex-assistant attorney general acted with “extraordinary recklessness” in his efforts to send letters in December 2020 and January 2021 falsely asserting that the Justice Department identified concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election.
The panel’s recommendation will now be considered by the full D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility and a Washington appeals court.
However, the panel stopped short of suggesting that Clark lose his law license, as the D.C. Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which brought ethics charges against him in early April, recommended.
It also found that Clark’s conduct had not been as bad as that of former Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, who also faced attorney ethics charges for trying to alter the 2020 election results.
The ex-assistant attorney general denied that he violated ethics rules.
His lawyers mentioned in a statement on Thursday that the ethics case was “unlawful on many grounds” and improperly explored private conversations between Justice Department officials and the former president.
On May 16, Clark attended the former president’s hush-money trial in Manhattan.
During the trial, he sat at the back of the courtroom during the cross-examination of lawyer Michael Cohen, who, while on the stand, admitted that he called the former president a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” on his podcast.
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