Allies of President Donald Trump are rallying behind Jeff Clark, a former senior Justice Department official now working in the White House, after the D.C. Bar recommended he be permanently stripped of his law license for his role in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election.

In a Thursday decision, a majority of the nine-member D.C. Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility found that Clark “persistently and energetically sought” to pressure department leadership to make false claims about election fraud, concluding he had violated legal ethics by pushing for official action based on what they deemed to be knowingly false statements by Clark, according to a 104-page report.