A federal judge rejected ex-Trump legal adviser John Eastman’s attempt to quash the House Jan. 6 select committee’s subpoena to Chapman University requesting his work emails from when he was a law professor at the school — where he worked as he was trying to help then-President Donald Trump steal the 2020 election.
Does the judge know this guy’s a lawyer, with, like, really brilliant legal ideas, and such? Yes? Doubleplus good.
Better lede, IMHO…
Too Bad So Sad
What is he hiding?? (I kid, I kid!!!)
Eastman is so very, very dumb. Not Lin Wood levels of dumb, but still very dumb nevertheless.
Eastman also pleaded the Fifth 146 times when the Jan. 6 panel interviewed him last month, according to a lawyer working for the committee.
It’s really too bad his e-mails won’t be pleading the fifth. Somewhere, Hillary is having another long laugh.
Eastman could take lessons from HRC about testifying in front of Congress.
Let’s hope the university has set up a special archive for all of Eastman’s emails.
Does anyone else smell bacon?
The judge has ordered a lighting fast review of “privilege” for Eastman’s emails, and given that the guy used his 5th amendment rights 146 times… I wonder if some of those emails might not be, you know, incriminating. IANAL, but my understanding is that you can’t claim client-attorney privilege if the topic under discussion was a prospective crime. Part of the order itself is reproduced in the linked tweet.
Yep. That’s the party of… uh… party of… uh, oops.
Eastman: “My plan was totally legal and I have nothing to hide.”
Also Eastman: “Quick – HIDE EVERYTHING!!!”
Very OT, but oh-so-perfect!
Panic! At Disqus!, a reader commenting on an article over at Wonkette, wrote the following:
“Bari Weiss is the Kyrstin Sinema of Peggy Noonans”
Oh, darn. Using an employer’s email system may, under California Law, hurt your privilege claims. Damn…
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool .” ― Shakespeare, As You Like It.
Eastman is doubtless a very smart fellow but clearly lacking in wisdom or he would never have put any faith in Trump or his cause.
I, too, wonder.
I wonder Big Time
Sounds like they got Judge Mehta, which is excellent news for the rule of law.