John Eastman’s ballot title is nixed by judge

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Republican attorney general candidate John Eastman won’t get to call himself an ‘assistant attorney general’ on the ballot after all.

Eastman had wanted to use that job description, although he would not have told voters his job as assistant attorney general was in South Dakota. On Thursday, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley ordered Eastman, who recently resigned as dean of Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, to be identified as a ‘constitutional law attorney.’

The campaign of one of Eastman’s opponents, Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, cheered the decision. Kevin Spillane, a Cooley spokesman, accused Eastman of using a ‘blatantly false and misleading ballot designation in an effort to fool the voters.’

‘That’s the exact opposite of what the state needs in an attorney general,” Spillane said.

The Eastman campaign did not immediately return a call for comment.

-- Shane Goldmacher in Sacramento