Board recommends that Trump White House official Jeffrey Clark be disbarred for efforts to overturn 2020 election

Source: CNN Politics

PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2025, 5:19 PM ET


A Washington, DC, disciplinary board recommended Thursday that Jeffrey Clark, an attorney and longtime ally of President Donald Trump, should lose his law license for trying to include the Justice Department in Trump’s failed attempt to subvert the 2020 election results.

The recommendation from Washington, DC’s board on professional responsibilities will now proceed to the DC Court of Appeals, who will make a final decision on Clark’s disbarment.

Clark’s potential punishment shows the cascading, and continuing, effects of Trump and his allies’ effort to keep him in the White House despite losing the 2020 presidential election.

In explaining its decision, the panel wrote that Clark, then an assistant attorney general, “urged Justice Department leadership to issue a letter he had drafted that cast doubt on the election results” despite being told by DOJ leadership his theory was not correct.

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