Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, and other lawyers on the White House staff testified that they dismissed Eastman's proposals as illegal and unconstitutional.
Bellevue Avenue was empty at that hour, and after dropping the stable-lad at the corner of Mill Street Archer turned down the Old Beach Road and drove across Eastman's Beach.
One lawyer who can be said to have taken up the challenge was John Eastman, a senior fellow at the institute for 30 years and the founder and director of Claremont's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.