On Sunday, John Eastman — one of the key architects of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election — complied with a federal district judge’s order and turned in eight emails to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. But as he turned them in, he also asked committee members to refrain from looking at the documents till he got a chance to file an appeal for the judge’s order.
Keeping them, baby! Legitimate legislative purpose of fixing the laws, if they fall short. Heck, teamwork makes the deam work, so release these emails to the public, so that others can weigh in on good ideas on how to deal with lawfare chaos agents like Eastman.
Thanks for the link! @leftcoaster No court should coddle this litigant. He is not a pro se client that just found himself in circumstances not of his own making.
“Dr. Eastman had nine days to seek relief from this Court,” Letter continued. “He nevertheless waited until the day before his production deadline to act, filing a flurry of last minute requests to resolve an emergency of his own making—and waited until after the production deadline to file a proper request for relief with this Court.”
Lousy lawyer does some lousy lawyering. Film at 11. (Wow, is that expression ever dated.)
Scrambling new years eve to find a notary. These guys are such a B team.
“There’s no one they can call to come to the White House that’s a notary?” Chris Gardner, a Virginia attorney and former GOP House aide assisting the president’s legal team, asked in an email sent just before 4 P.M. on New Year’s Eve. “I don’t know how we file without it. Presidential trip to a UPS store?”
Chesebro contended that Thomas would be “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress.
That sounds to me (a non-lawyer) that the judge who demanded these emails be turned over was right on the money:
the Court finds that it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," the judge wrote.
Well, come ON, people! Dr Eastman was BUSY! He had to tour the country, instructing local election disruptors on what to do during and after the balloting, to ensure no Republicam would be allowed to “lose”! He had no time to file that red tape paperwork to try to seal what he had just given to the JanSix Committee! Give the guy a break!
Good! Now HURRY UP AND READ THEM OUT LOUD into the Journal of its Proceedings. Let the House exercise Judgement that NO Parts require Secrecy. If any court tries to say otherwise, the House should refuse to obey that unconstitutional order.
From Article 1 Section 5:
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
