The DOJ has a warrant to search Eastman's phone, who crafted a memo that detailed a six-point plan to thwart the election results which included recruiting Trump loyalists to create false elector ballots in states that Biden won.
The Department of Justice said on Wednesday that it has obtained a warrant to search some of the contents of John Eastman’s phone.
Eastman, who formerly served as a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, was an instrumental part of the plot to overturn the 2020 election. In June, he had to surrender his phone to the DOJ after the department obtained a warrant, but another warrant was needed for investigators toAccording to a court filing from the DOJ this week, the second warrant was issued on July 12.
Although the warrant allows the DOJ to dig into the data and phone calls that Eastman made after the 2020 presidential election, it does not allow the agency to have total access to all data on the phone. Communications with Trump, which are considered protected under client-attorney privileges, cannot be examined by the department, andEastman, who currently resides in New Mexico, sought to block the warrant, but a federal judge in the state ruled against his objections.
In seeking to read the contents of Eastman’s phone, the DOJ “had to specify the crimes it has good cause to believe the contents will reveal,”The investigation into Eastman’s actions is part of a large-scale DOJ inquiry into the events of January 6, 2021, as well as the wider attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
Pence ultimately refused to go along with the plan — and on January 6, after Trump sent a mob of his loyalists to the Capitol to disrupt the certification,
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