NEW: The Jan. 6 committee is reviewing a trove of emails that John Eastman, the ex-lawyer of former President Trump, had tried to keep secret
John Eastman in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, April 29, 2021. Photo: Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is reviewing a trove of emails that John Eastman, the ex-lawyer of former President Trump, had tried to keep secret,A total of 101 emails, sent between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, were turned over to the Jan. 6 panel after a judgeto prevent their release, according to the new filings.
The emails purportedly show Eastman and other Trump aides discussing various methods to bar Congress from certifying the 2020 election results, including weaponizing the courts.“This may have been the first time members of President Trump’s team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action,” Judge David Carter wrote.
“In another email thread, Dr. Eastman’s colleagues discuss whether to publish a piece supporting his plan, and they touch on state lawsuits only to criticize how they are being handled by the Trump campaign,” Carter said in a ruling last month. “In a different email thread, Dr. Eastman and a colleague consider how to use a state court ruling to justify Vice President Pence enacting the plan. In another email, a colleague focuses on the ‘plan of action’ after the January 6 attacks.”
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