That changes it of course. If it was just campaign filings, then no - the campaign and TFG are not synonymous.
ETA: Eastman filed something in an election case but that isn’t going to cover anything related to the privilege he’s trying to claim now and there is a fraud exception to that privilege and @txlawyer thinks that just might apply.
Eastman’s doing the Foot Drag!
Born to foot drag, baby
Born to foot drag, baby, yeah
How slow can you go? How slow can you go?
Yeah, dunno about you but I am expecting some pretty spine-twisting, contortionist, tippy-tappy dancing with a whole lotta word salad thrown around for decorative effect.
Since Deadbeat Donnie never pays his bills, it will be hard to prove he was employed by him. Maybe the collection agency has the proof. /s
Eastman quickly changes his approach:
“We were in the Oval Office, and Donald asked me if I had some aspirin. So now they are all covered by Doctor/Patient confidentiality! That’s the ticket!”
Eastman had a signed agreement, but TFG flushed it down the toilet? Yeah, that’s the ticket
The question is pretty fact intensive and will extend to each document Eastman seeks to protect. In this case the judge might consider each document or class of documents himself or he might appoint a special master to do the hard work.
as he seeks to shield his communications with ex-President Donald Trump
He’s ashamed of what they said and did.
Or ate it and it still ended up down the toilet. No wonder he was complaining about low water consumption toilets.
Sometimes I get a mental image of people throwing chopped lettuce in the air like confetti when I hear or read “word salad.” That’s about what I expect, too.
Next, Eastman will claim to be a Priest in the Universal Life Church and that all conversations with Trump are covered by confession.
Eastman is also a board member of the National Organization for Marriage and has fought marriage equality for over a decade. He
The lawyers and armchair pundits here at the TPM forum yesterday predicted this.
I thought I read he was pushing this nonsense in 2010 (when you-know-who was prez). Not sure though.
I don’t think that’s accurate. The only election lawsuit in which Eastman seems to have made an appearance is as counsel for Trump in the Supreme Court on Texas v. Pennsylvania, that dumb case where Ken Paxton tried to whine about how Pennsylvania ran its election.
He appears to have been pushing the scheme to Bart Gellman in The Atlantic in September 2020.
I suspect they will claim pro Bono, when more likely quid pro quo.
Trump doesn’t understand English, let alone Latin. So who knows where this is going…
That is, fought against marriage equality : - )
new NOM chairman John Eastman warned that legalizing same-sex marriage would have “catastrophic consequences for civil society” and harm children by displacing their role in families. (Right Wing Watch)
In the mold of Newt Gingrich, he considers himself to be civilization’s savior.
… if it is really getting outrageous
This is just another example of a rich white guy who believes everyone around him is as lazy and accepting of grift, lies, and bullshit as he and his friends are.
It’s so Trumpian it may very well form the basis of Eastman’s argument for attorney-client privilege: dude, c’mon, you know I was his lawyer. Of course I was.