A disciplinary panel questioned Thursday the extent to which it can hold Donald Trump’s former environmental lawyer responsible for allegations that he worked with the president-elect to undermine his 2020 loss against President Joe Biden.
Not all members of the D.C. Bar’s Board of Professional Responsibility had questions for the advocates during the two-hour hearing, making it difficult to determine how the panel might decide whether Jeffrey Bossert Clark should lose his license to practice law.
But board members had more questions for the attorney representing Clark, whom they found unsuccessfully urged his higher-ups at the Department of Justice in late 2020 to sign off on a letter that falsely cast doubt on election results in Georgia.
Charles Burnham, an attorney at Burnham & Gorokhov who advocated on Clark’s behalf, said the board’s decision will set “important precedent” and could have a chilling effect for any future government lawyer who “feels compelled to take a risky stand.”
