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Mar. 29, 2022

John Eastman must turn over Trump emails, U.S. judge rules

“Based on the evidence, the Court finds that it is more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” wrote U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.

Former Chapman University Fowler School of Law professor John C. Eastman will comply with a Santa Ana federal judge’s order to turn over 101 emails to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attacks, his lawyer said Monday.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled against Eastman’s objections to turning over all but 10 of the disputed documents to the committee. Eastman argued all of them were protected by work pr...

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