Former Chapman Law Dean and state attorney general hopeful John Eastman received considerable support from national conservative leaders, who hosted a fundraising event for Eastman at the Capitol Hill Club. “My native state of California has suffered so much from attorney general Jerry Brown’s malfeasance that I am especially delighted by the news that constitutional law scholar John Eastman has declared his candidacy for state attorney general,” M. Edward Whelan III, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said in a blog posting advertising the Eastman fundraiser. Read more…