A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former Trump attorney John Eastman to turn over dozens of additional emails to the congressional Jan. 6 committee, including what the judge described as potential evidence of a crime and notes on secretive meetings that included a member of Congress and a Trump elector.
Shit is getting deeper for Eastman.
And closer to TFG.
While lawyers are free not to bring cases, Carter wrote, “they are not free to evade judicial review to overturn a democratic election. Accordingly, this portion of the email is subject to the crime-fraud exception and must be disclosed.”
Somehow I think we’re going to see this revisited, and by a different one of Ginni’s spouse’s clerks.
Bottom line. They knew it was wrong - factually, legally and morally. But they proceeded with the plan anyway.
Always is a bad sign when a judge denies your petition because you “been crimin’!”
Eastman also sought to withhold documents involving a group described as “civic minded citizens of a conservative viewpoint who meet semi-regularly to socialize and discuss issues of public concern.”
Who could that group be? The Former Thomas Clerks Society Knitting Circle?
Eastman? Crime? Who woulda thought?
I wonder if any Gooper congresscritters got that email.
Judge said because the crime fraud exception may apply, not that it defiinitely does. And the balance of interests favor turning over the emails, so that is what the judge ordered. No crime has been proven in this case. Yet.
lol, well john, better call Saul (don’t think he can help with this personal injury, though).
I want to go back to the days of “it depends on what the definition of is, is”…
It would be sweet if Ginni’s name was in that document.
In other news, Eastman may get his comeuppings. Has he been disbarred yet? As a matter of interest, I am completely confused why the ABA has not come down hard on all the attorneys that have misbehaved.
As am I.
:: puts out Bat Signal for @txlawyer or @occamscoin or whoever else does the lawyering thing ::
But a crime (or a few) has certainly been suggested … uncovered … revealed … shown pretty conclusively to have been planned and acted upon …
No one is getting convicted and sentenced becauase a judge said some emails may have been involved with crimin’ so turn them over. At least not without a whole lot of due process taking place beforehand. Months or years worth.
Because they were pretty sure they could make it work. Facts, laws and morality are for little people.
No, but the investigation should have started and moved along a bit.
So a “To Do List” would help?