John Eastman, lawyer for then-President Donald Trump, turns over thousands of emails to January 6

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

committee while withholding others

A conservative lawyer who worked with then-President Donald Trump has turned over thousands of pages of emails to the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection but is withholding thousands of others, according to court filing Sunday.

John Eastman, a law professor who helped craft Trump's false argument that the 2020 election was stolen, has turned over nearly 8,000 pages of emails to the committee while holding back about 11,000 pages because it is what he calls privileged material.

The new numbers come before Eastman and House attorneys meet with a federal judge Monday afternoon about the ongoing dispute over a subpoena of Eastman's Chapman University email account.

As an outside attorney working with Trump, Eastman pushed a fringe legal theory for how he believed then Vice-President Mike Pence could block the Electoral College vote in Congress.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-eastman-lawyer-for-then-president-donald-trump-turns-over-thousands-of-emails-to-january-6-committee-while-withholding-others/ar-AATQkwK

Coup memo author John Eastman tries to hide 11,000 documents from Capitol riot committee

Former Chapman University law professor John Eastman, the author of a controversial memorandum which claimed former Vice President Mike Pence had the unilateral power to overturn ex-president Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is attempting to block the House January 6th select committee from obtaining 11,000 of the 95,153 pages a federal judge ordered him to give the panel last month.

Mr Eastman, a conservative legal scholar, sued the House panel on 20 January to block enforcement of an 18 January subpoena which select committee chairman Bennie Thompson had issued to his former employer to compel production of “all documents and communications ... attributed to [Mr Eastman] that are related in any way to the 2020 election or the January 6, 2021 Joint Session of Congress”.

Five days later, a federal district judge denied his motion for an injunction blocking the subpoena, and the next day ordered him to begin reviewing documents and identify any over which he planned to assert claims of attorney-client privilege.

In a court filing early Monday, Mr Eastman said he’d reviewed 46,000 documents — nearly half of what he’d been ordered to review — and provided 8,000 to the select committee.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/coup-memo-author-john-eastman-tries-to-hide-11000-documents-from-capitol-riot-committee/ar-AATPLCy

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Isn't the Judge overseeing this

and making the determination as to whether information is actually privileged or not?

[Walleye]

2. They were trying to overturn the election, not just block the electoral count.

It seems like so many just can’t find the language to describe what was going on

[Irish_Dem]

3. I think people cannot wrap their heads around all of it.

The extent, depth of the POTUS crime spree is unbelievable.

Still a high degree of denial about what happened and what it means for our future.

[Walleye]

6. Yes we are still suffering from, "it couldn't happen here in America"

Anything bad that can happen anywhere in the world can happen here in America goddamnit

[Botany]

7. Starting from 2016 we are dealing with the largest crime in American history.

I think only Vlad Putin knows all of it.

[Walleye]

8. And there is no way to calculate the damage that has been done, much less how to repair it

[Irish_Dem]

13. I said the same thing the other day. The US is not immune from the bad stuff happening in the world.

People in Europe think we are spoiled and smug because we did not suffer like they did in WWI and II.

We are in denial about what can and does happen.

[Botany]

4. "John Eastman, lawyer for then-President Donald Trump, turns over thousands of emails to January 6"

Did Eastman just throw TFG under the bus to save his own skin?



Some reading for Adam and his friends on the j. 6 committee?

[lagomorph777]

5. Keep going after the hidden ones: those contain the real meat.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Indeed........

Much like the things we learned when others were ordered to submit requested materials!

[elias7]

9. Good, now we know which ones not to look at. Now go get the 11,000 pages he's hiding

[imaginary girl]

10. Privilege?

Isn't privilege waived when discussing a crime?

[lagomorph777]

12. It's waived when plotting a crime.

Which would apply here.

[Fiendish Thingy]

14. I thought the Chapman subpoena case had been resolved in the committee's favor?

I thought the ongoing dispute was over Eastman’s non-Chapman emails.