Conservative attorney John Eastman appeared in court virtually on Tuesday morning local time in an effort to shield some of his emails from being obtained by the Jan. 6th Committee.
During the hearing, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter from the Central District of California indicated that he would consider the relevant documents by inspecting them privately, in what is known as an in camera review.
Eastman’s attorney Charles Burnham argued that the emails at issue were covered by the attorney-client privilege and, in some instances, by the work-product doctrine.
U.S. House of Representatives general counsel Douglas Letter, who appeared on behalf of the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, was intent on piercing through the claimed privilege in order to obtain Eastman’s emails.
House Democrats want those documents in light of the so-called “coup memos,” the name informally given to two of Eastman’s memos advising then-vice president Mike Pence to disregard slates of electors from six state that voted for President Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. In those states, then-president Donald Trump and his allies mounted dozens of ultimately unsuccessful legal challenges mounting false claims of election fraud.
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