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    How a California lawyer became a focal point of the Jan. 6 investigation

    by Sarah D. Wire and Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Apr 04, 2022 6 minutes
    In this photo from June 4, 2013, John Eastman testifies during a hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C..

    WASHINGTON — A federal judge’s extraordinary assertion last week that former President Donald Trump likely committed felonies connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection marked a milestone for the House committee investigating the attack.

    It also underscored the perilous stakes for Trump’s former lawyer, California attorney John Eastman, who has emerged as one of the key figures in the congressional probe.

    Eastman was the architect of the legal theory at the root of Trump’s attempt to overturn the presidential election, a plan that U.S. District Judge David O. Carter denounced as obviously illegal.

    Carter reached his conclusion relying on evidence in a federal lawsuit Eastman brought to prevent Congress from obtaining his emails and documents. The judge found that Trump and Eastman “more likely than not” conspired to obstruct Congress on Jan. 6.

    Such a statement doesn’t mean charges will be filed but puts pressure on the Justice Department to act.

    Carter, whose California court district includes Los Angeles, rejected Eastman’s claim that the materials were privileged between attorney and client, ruling Eastman must turn over more than 100

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