A key player in Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the 2020 election was a little-known Justice Department lawyer who grew up in Northeast Philadelphia, according to the federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

The indictment does not name Trump’s alleged coconspirators, but one is identifiable as Jeffrey Clark, a lawyer who graduated from Father Judge High School in 1985.

The charging document describes him as a DOJ official who “worked on civil matters” and, along with Trump, “attempted to use the Justice Department to open sham election crime investigations and influence state legislatures with knowingly false claims of election fraud.”

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The Jan. 6 congressional committee previously documented Clark’s role in the alleged scheme to corrupt the Justice Department.

The indictment cites a draft letter Clark proposed sending to state officials in Georgia that said the legislature there should appoint pro-Trump electors. Clark also wanted to send similar letters to officials in other battleground states — a plan that would give Trump’s “lies the backing of the federal government,” the indictment says.

During a White House meeting on the morning of Jan. 3, 2021, Clark accepted Trump’s offer to become acting attorney general, according to prosecutors. That afternoon, a White House lawyer tried to dissuade Clark from taking the job. The unnamed lawyer told Clark there had been no...

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