WASHINGTON — More emails involving Donald Trump’s former attorney John Eastman feature evidence of potential postelection criminal activity by Trump and his allies, a federal judge in California found.
U.S. District Judge David Carter on Wednesday ordered the disclosure of eight documents that Eastman argued should be shielded from a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, citing privileges for attorney-client communications or legal work product.
Carter found that the emails related to criminal conduct, known as the crime-fraud exception. Carter earlier this year held that Trump “more likely than not” attempted to obstruct Congress’s certification of the 2020 election and engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
