EXCLUSIVE — Jeff Clark’s battle to preserve his legal career has stretched across two presidential administrations, cost millions of dollars, and left the former Trump Justice Department official preparing for a possible trip to the Supreme Court.Now, a lawsuit from President Donald Trump‘s DOJ offers Clark a potential avenue to end the disciplinary case before the D.C. Court of Appeals decides whether to disbar him.Washington, D.C., disciplinary authorities moved on July 10 to dismiss that lawsuit, arguing Clark is not being punished for expressing an unconventional legal opinion. They contend he knowingly pressed senior DOJ officials to send a five-page letter containing false claims about investigations of the 2020 election, and continued to push for the letter’s dispatch despite pushback from more senior officials.
Clark’s disbarment dispute stems from a draft letter he prepared in December 2020, which he maintained was at the behest of Trump at a time when he ordered the DOJ to investigate potential instances of fraud occurring in that election. His legal troubles remain unresolved nearly six years later.“It’s truly like an endless process where the process is the punishment,” Clark told the Washington Examiner in April.The unsent Georgia letter
