Professor David Clements Investigated a SIXTH TIME by Disciplinary Board – This Time for Visiting Hero Tina Peters in Jail

Republished with permission from The Stream, courtesy of investigative journalist Rachel Alexander.

Prominent election integrity lawyer and former law professor David Clements, known for his podcasts and landmark 2024 documentary about election fraud, Let My People Go, has been predictably under vicious attacks by the left over the past few years.

They are filing bar complaint after bar complaint against him, and got him fired from his law professor job at New Mexico State University due to refusing to subject his students to the mask and COVID-19 experimental drug mandates.

The retaliation against him for leading an election audit in New Mexico’s Otero County has been vile, resulting in death threats against him and his wife. However, he isn’t backing down, and instead is continuing to stand up to the corrupt political witch hunts.

This is my interview with him exposing what has happened to him. The details are stunning and frightening.  

On February 14, 2025, former law professor David Clements was 680 miles away from his wife, Erin, meeting with election integrity experts on how to capitalize on the new Trump administration’s sweeping reforms to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse throughout the federal government — but with a focus on elections.

At 6:17 pm, while most couples were celebrating Valentine’s Day, Clements received a text photo from Erin. Moments before, she had opened a letter marked “CONFIDENTIAL” from the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico.

The contents revealed that the Disciplinary Board had opened an investigation over allegations of professional misconduct.

The accusation? That Clements’s recent visit with former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in a Colorado jail — Peters being the wrongfully convicted and courageous whistleblower that exposed Dominion Voting Systems — was achieved through “false pretenses.”

She was sentenced to nine years after a sham trial that excluded nearly all her defenses and most of her testifying experts — one of whom was Clements.

Unable to help Peters at trial, Clements sought to bring greater awareness of her conditions by publishing a short video update with her, which went viral.  The Clementses knew the claims were patently absurd – but reactions were markedly different.  Clements texted Erin back “Yay!!!” He seemed to relish another opportunity to fight the bar association.

But when he called his wife, she was understandably worn down. “They never stop,” she said.

And she would know. This was the sixth complaint filed against Clements since August 2021 — and even worse, it would prove to be the start of a sixth preliminary investigation to determine whether Clements should be disbarred.

His latest accuser? Oddly enough, it was the same man who had brought accusations against him in 2020 that had gotten him fired from his job at New Mexico State University: Trent Toulouse.

We encourage you to read every word of Clements’s response to the Disciplinary Board.

What this journalist found is that the Toulouse complaint pales in comparison to a much larger story — namely, a coordinated effort between political operatives, government-funded media, and the bar association to destroy Clements.

I recently took the time to interview him and several others with whom he has crossed paths over the past several years.

“The Process Is the Punishment”

Clements easily rebutted Toulouse’s claims of entering a secure facility under “false pretenses.” Here is a short excerpt from his response:

“There is no legal or ethical prohibition for an attorney, whether licensed in the forum state or not, to visit a prisoner…. [t]he webpage explicitly welcomes video visitation, which can take place via “almost any smart phone or internet connected PC with a webcam and microphone.”

As you can see, there is no prohibition against screen recording from people on the outside, which the jail could not enforce even if they wanted to.

The undersigned produced his name and New Mexico bar card, produced the identity of Ms. Peters’ attorney of record, and disclosed the iPad I would be taking into the facility to Sheriff Deputy Michael Walters (Badge #16005).

I was cleared by his chain of command after they confirmed my identity, credentials, and searched my person. There is no rule restricting an attorney from taking a tablet into the facility that has recording capability.

In fact, it is customary practice for attorneys to meet with their clients to record statements, take electronic notes, and in some cases provide legal research while on the grounds. The meeting room has floor-to-ceiling windows, is transparent and under recorded surveillance.”

If there was no merit to Toulouse’s complaint, I asked Clements why he thought it was filed. He answered, “To keep me under continued investigation. The process is the punishment.

I have to tell prospective clients that my representation could hurt them by virtue of an ever-present black cloud hovering over my license. It also takes up considerable time and money on my end defending against these never-ending complaints.

“But to better answer your question, you have to know who Trent Toulouse is. He’s a psychology professor at a New Mexico community college that runs a radical left website called ‘RationalWiki.’ He’s on the board of trustees as the operations manager.

“Looking at RationalWiki’s X page, I’ve located a post advocating that the age of consent to engage in sexual intercourse with an adult be lowered to 14. He just took that down after I filed my response. The page is a treasure trove of perversion, and an incubator to target conservative influencers. I’ve got screenshots of it all.”

He continued: “And if Toulouse’s name sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because he is a family relation of New Mexico Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse Oliver.” 

The picture now begins to sharpen. Clements’s audit work in New Mexico has provided the basis for numerous articles exposing election corruption in New Mexico – and that has proven to be a personal wrecking ball to Oliver.

In August 2021, Trent Toulouse filed his first bar complaint against Clements, accusing him of “sedition and treason” after he made a presentation at a Cyber Symposium concerning the 2020 election that millions of people watched.

Around that time, New Mexico State University suspended Clements from his teaching job in the business college for refusing to subject his students to the mask and COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

A second complaint arrived shortly thereafter from attorney Nicholas Bullock, accusing Clements of jeopardizing the university’s safety because his influence as a subject-matter expert in consumer protection law stood as a stark rebuttal to the “settled science” that was at that time being proliferated on campus.  A week later, fellow NMSU Professor Jamie Bronstein filed a third complaint, making similar allegations. A video on Rumble titled “Law Professor REFUSES to MASK UP or get the JAB,” which garnered hundreds of thousands of views, set much of these events in motion.

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Tall Poppy Syndrome

Clements became an easy target after he appeared on Tucker Carlson’s primetime show, and also because of his history of thumbing his nose at the university for woke DEI “antiracism” and “antidiscrimination” policies. For example, out of approximately 60 university faculty senators, Clements was the only one to vote against a formal statement declaring that New Mexico State University was founded on institutional (i.e., white) racism. “We are a Hispanic-majority state, and our state was founded 50 years after the abolishment of slavery!” Clements said later. “But my vote gave the Marxist faculty all they needed to play the race game.”

The opening salvo from the first three Disciplinary Board investigations required Clements to produce 5,000 legal documents from hundreds of election cases nationwide on which he had offered commentary in response to questions during various podcasts. Simultaneously, the university was working through back channels to collect evidence it could use to fire him from his social media posts.

In response to the bar and his university’s groupthink on all things COVID-19, Clements ended up writing and submitting a legal treatise on the virus, highlighting scientific articles, legal defenses from the Nuremburg Code, and arguments provided under the Federal Trade Commission prohibiting deceptive practices.

He offered to walk the Disciplinary Board through election evidence aggregation websites to show them where they could locate and view thousands of sworn affidavits and expert election reports. In fact, he was so painfully helpful to the tribunal that the Disciplinary Board started backtracking as he provided receipt after receipt on the rigged 2020 election. The board modified its request for 5,000 documents to a paltry 10 affidavits. To Clements, it seemed as if the board wanted to limit what he put on the record.

Meanwhile, the university was unable to rebut a single claim Clements made in the medical-legal treatise he delivered to combat what looked to be an inevitable firing; Clements published the entire termination hearing online.

Gone, But Not Forgotten

After being tied up for months with discovery production, Clements eventually prevailed against his first three accusers. He maintained his law license while the Disciplinary Board issued an advisory opinion that fell well short of exonerating him.

Later, he reflected on his initial good fortune concerning why he wasn’t sanctioned.

“The answer is simple,” he said. “They knew I was about to be fired from the university. And the day after my termination hearing, I was.”

But instead of going away, Clements went on the warpath.

With the steadfast support of his wife, Erin — a formidable licensed engineer and data analyst — he secured approval to perform a commissioned forensic audit of Otero County, New Mexico, and partial audits in seven other counties statewide concerning the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The audit team they selected was akin to something Clements would have pulled together when he was a prosecutor taking on a drug trafficking organization: Nation-state vulnerability experts, master statisticians, and IT professionals analyzed everything they could get their hands on. They ended up producing a report so devastating in its scope that Otero was the first county nationwide to vote to get rid of Dominion Voting Systems and remove Mark Zuckerberg-funded ballot drop boxes. It also voted to sue Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver for illegally certifying a fraudulent system.

The Clementses’ expert team believed they confirmed that Dominion illegally wiped the entire 2020 election file from the county’s Election Management System – which made it an active crime scene.

While the audit was being performed, the U.S. Congress issued a cease-and-desist order against its prime contractort. The order, signed by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland), claimed the auditors were engaging in voter intimidation, and included subpoenas demanding that all communications be turned over to the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

With Congress intervening, the Otero Commission fell under pressure from every direction to distance itself from the Clementses. And of course, the media and social media played their roles: a political operative uploaded a TikTok video fabricating an encounter with “intimidating” canvassers that never happened. The Daily Beast published the fabricated account, all too happy to participate in a national smear campaign.

And then “it got worse,” Clements said. “Operatives schemed with a two-faced Otero County attorney who worked behind the scenes to shut down the audit and discredit the team.”

A Pivotal Meeting

One such effort involved the county attorney drafting a public censure, which would rebuke Clements’s canvassing team. The commission would read the censure aloud and vote on it, with propaganda outlets standing by to publish a false narrative that the auditors were violating voters’ civil rights.

When the Clementses learned of the scheme, they drove to Alamogordo, New Mexico from their home in Las Cruces to attend the Otero County meeting. There, they exposed the source of the fabricated encounter and played voicemail message after voicemail message of leftist political operatives leaving death threats for Clements and his wife.

“As each voicemail was played, you could see [the county attorney] shrinking in size, looking more and more resigned that their scheme was being exposed in real time,” Clements said. [Watch the whole encounter at “Otero County Commission Meeting March 10, 2022.” [Fast-forward to the 2:30:00 mark for this part.]

After the rebuttal, the attorney still half-heartedly pushed for a censure, but to no avail. The commission voted to rescind it. Regardless, the Clementses’ efforts to rid the county of Dominion were short-lived: Clements later met with County Sheriff David Black and District Attorney Scot Key.  “I handed them probable cause on a silver platter to seize the tabulators that were wiped by Dominion,” he recalled. “I remember them looking at me like I had lost my mind, like, ‘What do you expect us to do, go to war with the federal government?”

With most of the Otero County commissioners still holding the line to get rid of Dominion Systems voting machines, Mark Zuckerberg-funded ballot drop boxes, and sue New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, a radical leftist network aided by Oliver went to work to undo the victory.

“First, Oliver petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court for a Writ of Mandamus,” Clements explained. “Within 24 hours, the Court declared that the Otero County commission had no choice but to certify what they believed to be a fraudulent election. The court also referred the commissioners to a George Soros-funded attorney general to prosecute them if they did not provide a rubber stamp of approval.”

As a result, one county commissioner changed his vote, fearful of being arrested; the other two held strong.

So three individuals in New Mexico, supported by a coalition ranging from a D.C.-based NGO called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics to the NAACP and the watchdog group Common Cause, along with several New Mexico-based law firms, filed a lawsuit in left-leaning Santa Fe County to remove Otero Commissioner Couy Griffin from office. Griffin had been deemed to be “an