Listened (lawfag) to parts of the 1st day of legal license-revocation hearing of former president Trump’s attorney, John Eastman.

I have NEVER heard a judge jump in so many times, taking over the questioning of the Dr. Eastman from the California State Bar attorney, interrupting the witness, interrupting the Bar attorney, imposing her own objections to the witness' statements, challenging the witness over and over – e.g., when he was qualifying his answer so as to avoid violating attorney-client privilege (telling him he cannot answer the question he wished had been asked, when that was not what he was doing), restating the Bar attorney's questions by "admittedly paraphrasing" the questions into “better” questions (for one side - hint: not Eastman's).

It is shocking. Not subtle at all.

Maybe license revocation / disciplinary hearings are more lax than a superior, appellate or Supreme Court in California but I would expect the rules of evidence and procedure still apply, as would, I would expect, the rules and codes of ethical conduct and non-partisanship for "triers of fact" - in this case, the judge.

Bar Court Judge Yvette D. Roland

She also excluded key evidence, expert testimony, sought to be introduced in the coming days by Eastman (when ruling earlier in the day on motions in limine).

For his part, Dr. Eastman was a consummate pro. Nothing seemed to phase him. He was consistent, explained the what-why-and how his challenges to the 2020 election were lawful, dropped a lot of red pills, were one to be listening for them. No doubt many more red pills in the reported 100,000 pages of documents in the case.

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Also:

[Eastman's] attorney Randall A. Miller said the hearing against the former dean “ispart of a nationwide effort to use the bar discipline process to penalize attorneys who opposed the current administration in the last presidential election. Americans of both political parties should be troubled by this politicization of our nation’s state bars.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/disbarment-proceedings-for-john-eastman-ex-trump-election-lawyer-begin-in-california/