Trump lawyer ordered to respond to January 6 committee subpoena for his Chapman University emails

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Eastman needs to be disbarred

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A federal judge is forcing a conservative lawyer who had worked for then-President Donald Trump before the January 6 insurrection to respond to a House select committee subpoena of Chapman University for his emails -- setting congressional investigators up to receive access to information they've wanted for months but had not been able to get.

Federal Judge David Carter in Santa Ana, California, on Monday pinned down exactly when law professor John Eastman was at work for his client, Trump, as he devised a plan to overturn the 2020 election result.

A lawyer for Eastman told the judge during a court hearing Monday that his client had been working for Trump during a number of major controversial moments leading up to January 6: When he told state legislators on January 2 they needed to "fix this, this egregious conduct" that would put Joe Biden in the White House, when he was in the Willard Hotel with other Trump contacts, and when he met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on January 3 about blocking the congressional certification of the 2020 vote.

The admissions from Eastman's lawyer, Charles Burnham, are the clearest statements yet on how much Eastman was doing on Trump's behalf -- rather than on his own initiative -- in the days leading up to January 6, 2021.

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1. Only the best people!

Trump's genius-level constitutional lawyer thought it would be just fine to use his work email for conspiracy purposes.

Well...he's a professor, not a lawyer. So maybe he doesn't get things like evidentiary rules and ownership of email accounts. That stuff is kinda hard.

Couping, however, is EZ.

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2. Eastman retires trom Chapman

Jan 13, 2021
09:33pm EST
Michael T. Nietzel

John Eastman .. law professor ..at Chapman University .. has agreed to resign ...

The announcement .. came in the form of a brief statement by Chapman President .. Struppa ...

“After discussions over the course of the last week, Dr. John Eastman and Chapman University have reached an agreement pursuant to which he will retire from Chapman, effective immediately. Dr. Eastman’s departure closes this challenging chapter for Chapman and provides the most immediate and certain path forward for both the Chapman community and Dr. Eastman. Chapman and Dr. Eastman have agreed not to engage in legal actions of any kind, including any claim of defamation that may currently exist, as both parties move forward” ...

The pressure on Chapman to address concerns over Eastman had intensified following his on-stage participation at a Washington, D.C. rally with Rudy Giuliani. “We know there was fraud,” Eastman said at the rally. “We know that dead people voted.” That rally preceded a mob storming the U.S. Capitol ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/01/13/john-eastman-retires-from-chapman-university/?sh=348ab02765e7