WASHINGTON — A pair of newly unsealed court orders show how a federal investigation into activity following the 2020 presidential election touched prominent conservative lawyers connected to former President Donald Trump.
The redacted orders show that a Justice Department filter team earlier this year identified emails and documents gathered from attorneys Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, and Ken Klukowski that the government believed were not covered by any legal privileges.
U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell in Washington granted the filter team’s request to give the primary investigation team messages involving Clark, Eastman, and Klukowski and an email account associated with Republican Rep. Scott Perry in the months leading up to the November 2020 election and immediately after.
