Hailing it as a "truly heartening" decision while Donald Trump acts with almost total impunity, legal expert Steven Lubet commended the disbarment recommendation against a MAGA lawyer for taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Writing for The Hill on Monday, Lubet, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law and prolific writer on the subject of legal ethics, relayed the story of Georgia-based lawyer, William McCall Calhoun Jr. Last month, Lubet explained, the state's nine Supreme Court Justices, including eight Republican appointees, unanimously issued an opinion that Calhoun must be disbarred for his participation in the Capitol Riots.
Despite his conviction being wiped away by Trump last year, Calhoun remained disbarred in Georgia, a fact he petitioned to have overturned. The state's bar disciplinary counsel decided that the petition had merit and that only "a public reprimand was warranted." Last month, however, the state's Supreme Court denied the petition.
