Disciplinary investigators who brought the charges against Clark say they intend to advocate for his disbarment.
Former Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division Jeffrey Bossert Clark is seen during an interview at Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., Aug. 13, 2019. | Francis Chung/POLITICOA disciplinary panel in Washington has found that Jeffrey Clark, a former high-ranking Justice Department official, violated ethics rules for lawyers in his attempt to aid Donald Trump’s bid to subvert the 2020 election.
The decision followed six days of testimony, including by Clark’s former Justice Department superiors: Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and his deputy Richard Donoghue, who described a failed effort by Clark to use the department to falsely claim the election results were in doubt.
“He is a brilliant lawyer, and throughout his career he has worked like a sled dog,” MacDougald said. “We’re not talking about the guy in ‘Better Call Saul.’” Bar proceedings against figures like Clark and Giuliani have helped air details about the chaotic weeks following the 2020 election that might have otherwise remained concealed, even as criminal cases against the former president have slowed to a crawl.
Clark began meeting with Trump to discuss these potential efforts, and then began pressuring his bosses to issue a public letter calling on Republican state legislators to revisit the results of the election in key states Biden won. Clark was “willfully blind” to evidence that was contrary to his assertions that the election was stolen, investigators found.
Rosen and Donoghue repeatedly rejected Clark’s effort, contending that it was built on falsehoods. And they questioned his effort to involve himself in an area that was not within his purview.
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