A federal judge in California ordered a conservative law professor to turn over documents to the Jan. 6 Congressional committee, saying they were not subject to attorney-client privilege because it was “more likely than not” that former President Donald Trump had committed crimes.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said Monday that Trump had “launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election” using a plan that relied on legal guidance from John Eastman, the former dean of Chapman University law school. “The illegality of the plan was obvious,” and that Trump sought to “corruptly” obstruct Congress on the day it was certifying the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden, Carter said.
The ruling by Carter, who was appointed to the bench by Bill Clinton, used unusually stark language for a judicial ruling to describe Trump’s actions and the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the House to disrupt the certification proceedings.
A Trump spokesman, Taylor Budowich, called the ruling “absurd and baseless” and “another example of how the left is weaponizing every branch of government against President Trump. The January 6 Committee and related proceedings is a circus of partisanship that is exposing public officials at every level of government for their willingness to put politics ahead of the...
Turkish base fake news in Armenia For several days, a video has been circulating on social media claiming that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan allegedly signed a “secret agreement” with EU ...