Sam Skolnik , Bloomberg Law; Jeffrey Clark Should Get 2-Year Suspension, DC Ethics Board Says
"Trump administration Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark should receive a two-year suspension for attempting dishonesty over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a DC Board on Professional Responsibility panel recommended Thursday.
“Disciplinary Counsel has proven by clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Clark attempted dishonesty and did so with truly extraordinary recklessness,” the panel said.
The recommendation from a board hearing committee is in stark contrast to that of DC Disciplinary Counsel Phil Fox, who on April 29 said that disbarment is “the only possible sanction” for Clark.
Clark, a former US assistant attorney general, in late 2020 tried to get his Justice Department superiors to send a letter to Georgia state officials improperly questioning the election outcome, three lawyers for the bar, led by Fox, wrote. Clark engaged in a “dishonest attempt to create national chaos on the verge of January 6,” they wrote.
Fox didn’t prove “by clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Clark was as culpable” as Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani or John Eastman, but he was culpable, the committee said in its 213-page, Aug. 1 report."
