New evidence has emerged that former President Donald Trump likely made false representations in December 2020 to a Georgia federal court as part of his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Trump could be charged with the federal crimes of perjury or filing a false declaration for this conduct, which is the 56th criminal offense that he has been credibly accused of since first seeking the office of president.
On October 19, 2022, United States District Judge David O. Carter ordered that 33 records subpoenaed by the January 6th Select Committee be produced despite claims that they were privileged attorney work product or attorney-client communications. The records at issue were created by or sent to John Eastman, an attorney who worked with former President Trump to overturn the 2020 election. Because Eastman used an email address provided by Chapman University (“Chapman”), the Select Committee subpoenaed the records in question from the university.
In his opinion, Judge Carter explained eight of the records he was ordering Chapman to produce were subject to the crime-fraud exception, which prevents the attorney work product doctrine or attorney-client privilege from shielding records relating to and in furtherance of a fraud or crime.
Judge Carter concluded that four of those records indicated that the primary goal of Eastman and others in filing certain lawsuits challenging the 2020...
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday rejected the claims of Congress MLAs from Tamil Nadu being shifted to a resort in Bengaluru post Assembly elections. He further said that ...