John Eastman: ‘Why I Persist in Fighting Against the Lawfare Against Me’

John Eastman: “People often ask me why I persist in fighting against the lawfare against me. Why not just throw in the towel and cut deals and be done?

And my answer to them has been: I think our country was on the precipice—and may still be on the precipice—of losing freedoms that we inherited, that our grandfathers and even further back, our Founders pledged their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honor to achieve.

And I'm not willing to let those things be lost for my kids and grandkids without putting up a fight.

When the Georgia indictment was handed down against me, I was teaching a seminar of young, recent law school grads called the John Marshall fellowship that we run at the Claremont Institute. And everybody's phone starts buzzing. … So I know everybody in the room knows it, but I continue to teach about the religion clauses.

And at the end of the week, we have a nice, fancy dinner and some good wine, and they roast each other, and they'll occasionally toast the professors and thank us. … One of the participants gets up … and he said what we witnessed there with his commitment to continue to teach … demonstrated to us a level of courage that was contagious.

…If you think about the last line in our national anthem, the question is not so much whether the flag still waves or flies.

The question is, what kind of land it flies over: Is it still the land of the free and the home of the brave? Or is it the land of the coward and the home of the slave?"