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Judge: Trump ‘more likely than not’ conspired to obstruct Congress from certifying election results By City News Service
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federal judge in Santa Ana ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump "more likely than not" attempted to illegally block Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election, and he likely conspired with a former Chapman University law professor to do it. In a 44-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ordered ex- Chapman professor John Eastman to turn over 101 emails requested by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He found that 10 emails requested by the committee were privileged and did not have to be surrendered. Eastman "intends to comply with the court's order," according to a statement issued by his attorney, Charles Burnham. During a hearing earlier this month, Douglas Letter, the attorney for the Jan. 6 committee said
Former President Donald J. Trump. | Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
the "easy" way to release the mails would be to find that Eastman violated the university's policy against working for a political candidate, and that he had
no expectation of privacy due to the university's unusual policies regarding its email servers. But Carter knocked down most of those arguments.
Carter's ruling "rightly rejected the Jan. 6 committee's attempts to invade attorney-client privilege by arguing that no attorneyclient relationship existed
between Dr. Eastman and President, that Dr. Eastman somehow waived privilege by using a law school email, and that the Jan. 6 committee's claimed `compelling
need' for the materials overrode attorney- client privilege," Eastman said in the statement. Carter instead opted for the more politically charged allegations that the former president and Eastman engaged in a criminal conspiracy to halt the election of President Joseph Biden. "Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history," Carter wrote. "Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower -- it was a coup in search of a legal theory. The plan spurred violent attacks on the seat of our nation's government, led to the deaths of several law enforcement officers, and deepened public distrust in our political process." Carter added, "More than a year after the attack on our Capitol, the public is still searching for accountability. See Election results Page 3