Much more than 1,300 attorneys have signed an ethics criticism directed to the California Bar, urging the group to investigate law firm John Eastman, who suggested previous President Donald Trump on approaches to attempt to overturn the 2020 election success.

Eastman wrote a now infamous memo that suggested then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to reject electors from important battleground states that flipped blue for President Joe Biden, ensuing in Trump’s Electoral College decline. The correct-wing legal professional has confronted significant backlash for his relationship to Trump, and others have earlier urged the California Bar to investigate his actions and possibly sanction him.

“Mr. Eastman appears to have acted in concert with other lawyers, notably Rudolph W. Giuliani and Jeffrey C. Clark, in an exertion to set up Mr. Trump in the place of work of President of the United States for a further 4 decades notwithstanding the irrefutable truth that the people today of the United States had selected Joseph R. Biden to swap him,” the lawyers wrote in the Thursday letter outlining their ethics grievance in opposition to Eastman.

“We feel that concerted unethical action by lawyers aggravates the situations of their violation,” they extra.

Beforehand, the States United Democracy Center submitted issues from Eastman with the California Bar in Oct and November. The new ethics criticism, backed by attorneys by way of the efforts of Attorneys Defending American Democracy, cited those people previous complaints to urge an investigation of Eastman’s conduct.

“The essence of our grievance is that when Mr. Eastman engaged in the things to do documented by States United, he was not acting independently to supply legal suggestions to President Trump. As a substitute, he was collaborating with Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Clark in a very carefully orchestrated collective plan to overturn the final results of the 2020 Presidential election even although all of the obtainable proof evidently showed that Joseph R. Biden experienced gained,” the legal professionals wrote.

George Cardona, chief trial counsel for the California Bar, instructed Newsweek in a assertion that he “can’t remark on what actions we have taken in response to these complaints or whether an legal professional is currently being investigated, nor can we remark on earlier shut problems that lacked evidence or lead to to carry on to disciplinary fees.”

He continued, “That stated, each attorney admitted to observe in California will take an oath outlined by statute: to help the Structure of the United States and the California Constitution, and to faithfully discharge their duties to the greatest of their know-how and capacity. California statutes and the Policies of Experienced Perform need legal professionals to work out honesty, integrity and accountability in the study course of their skilled observe.

“Failure to adhere to the guidelines and statutes that govern the exercise of lawyers could final result in them staying subject to discipline, in keeping with the Point out Bar’s community protection mission,” Cardona reported.

Notably, Giuliani—a Republican who earlier served as mayor of New York City—had his regulation license suspended in June due to the fact of falsehoods he unfold about the 2020 election. A New York court ruled this summer season that he made “demonstrably fake and misleading statements” in his efforts to maintain Trump in power. He now faces probable disbarment as perfectly.

Eastman spoke to the crowd of Trump supporters in Washington, D.C., on January 6 that would commence to violently storm the Capitol in an clear exertion to disrupt the official certification of Biden’s election win. The lawyer has refused to cooperate with the Property choose committee investigating the January 6 attack, picking out to sue Verizon and the committee in an effort and hard work to reduce a evaluation of his mobile phone records.

The conservative pro-Trump attorney advised The New York Periods in October that he was however investigating discredited allegations of popular voter fraud in the 2020 election. He argued that the statements experienced not been appropriately reviewed—despite more than 60 election challenge lawsuits failing in condition and federal courts.

“There are loads of allegations out there that failed to get their working day in court docket and tons of men and women that feel them and desire they got their working day in court docket,” he advised the Periods.

“And I am functioning quite diligently with a number of teams—statistical teams, election experts groups, all sorts of teams—to try and discover the many claims and figure out regardless of whether they have advantage or there is fair rationalization for them,” he added.

Trump and his allies continue to assert that the 2020 election was “rigged” or “stolen” in Biden’s favor. They have not supplied evidence substantiating their allegations. Even judges appointed by Trump and other Republicans have dismissed election challenge lawsuits submitted in guidance of the previous president. Audits and recounts in important battleground states have regularly reaffirmed Biden’s victory about Trump as well.