One Year Ago Today (October 29, 2022)…A former Chapman University law school dean who represented ex-President Donald Trump has filed an appeal of a federal judge’s order he turn over several documents to a congressional committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Former Chapman law professor John Eastman asked U.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Thursday to reconsider his ruling that the documents, which ordinarily would be kept secret due to attorney-client privilege, should be released to the congressional committee due to the judge’s finding of a crime-fraud exception. Carter made that finding earlier this year, and reiterated it again last week when he ruled that Trump knowingly signed a court document in Georgia even though he knew the facts alleged in it were wrong.
“Dr. Eastman respectfully submits that the relevant context shows that this ruling was clearly erroneous,” Eastman’s attorneys wrote in the filing.
“Dr. Eastman submits that the full email record clearly shows that the president’s lawyers took great care to ensure all court filings were accurate,” according to Eastman’s motion.
Eastman’s motion includes an affidavit, which was filed under seal, that he argued “show that no false information was knowingly submitted by the president or his attorneys, and that the complaint (filed in Georgia challenging the election results) was not filed for an improper purpose.”
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