4/ The possibilities include at least Giuliani, Eastman, Jeff Clark & Jenna Ellis. It's not just about obtaining testimony against Trump, it’s also about obtaining testimony to encourage defendants who are closer to Trump & can testify directly against him to plead guilty as well.

@GottaLaff Exactly. This is the whole point, or one of the points anyway, of conspiracy and RICO laws: they give prosecutors vast amounts of leverage over potential witnesses who might not otherwise want to testify. I'm a criminal defense guy, and as such I'm inclined to mentally frame that as "vastly too much leverage," but in this case I'm suppressing the urge.

I'm curious about the fate of Powell and Chesebro's law licenses. In California, anyway, you can be disbarred for even a misdemeanor conviction if it's for a "crime of moral turpitude," and what those two pled to sounds pretty darn turpitudinous to me. Fingers crossed on that one.

@tienle47 @GottaLaff Now that's interesting. Is this something that a sentencing court can determine? Like, let's say I plead to something that's self-evidently a crime of moral turpitude, like perjury. If the judge says "I order that this not be considered a CoMT," does that settle the matter -- that is, does that mean that my bar association is prohibited from finding that it was? Not a rhetorical question; I really don't know. But if that is what it means, that's a bit counter-intuitive, to me anyway.