A federal judge has decided the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection should get access on Wednesday to 159 emails of right-wing attorney John Eastman that largely relate to his efforts on behalf of Donald Trump to try to block the 2020 election result.
Trump-linked lawyer John Eastman has been ordered to hand over a new batch of emails that could indicate a crime was committed, a federal judge claimed Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Conservative lawyer John Eastman must give 159 more emails to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including one a judge says is evidence of a likely crime related to the effort to overturn the election. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter
Eastman, the lawyer who wrote memos arguing then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the 2020 election, was directed to turn over about 170 documents to the panel.
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