Judge sends another trove of Eastman emails to Jan. 6 committee

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Politico

A federal judge Tuesday ordered John Eastman — the attorney who developed former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch strategy to overturn the election — to disclose a batch of 159 sensitive documents to the Jan. 6 select committee, including another email that the judge said presented evidence of a likely crime.

In a 26-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter also ordered Eastman to provide 10 documents about meetings Eastman held with a secretive pro-Trump group that included a “high-profile” leader discussing strategies for overturning the 2020 election.

The 10 documents in question related to three December meetings held by the group. “Five documents include the agenda for a meeting on December 9, 2020,” the California-based judge indicated. “The agenda included a section entitled “GROUND GAME following Nov 4 Election Results,” during which a sitting Member of Congress discussed a “[p]lan to challenge the electors in the House of Representatives.” Other meetings of the group took place on Dec. 8 and Dec. 16, Carter noted.

“The Select Committee has a substantial interest in these three meetings because the presentations furthered a critical objective of the January 6 plan: to have contested states certify alternate slates of electors for President Trump,” he ruled. “Dr. Eastman’s actions in these few weeks indicate that his and President Trump’s pressure campaign to stop the electoral count did not end with Vice President Pence — it targeted every tier of federal and state elected officials. Convincing state legislatures to certify competing electors was essential to stop the count and ensure President Trump’s reelection.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/07/judge-eastman-emails-jan-6-committee-00037999

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. These emails are bad for Eastman

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[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Yep. The judge is properly quashing lawyer-client privilege because....evidence of a crime.

Oops.

How to reverse the media called election…in other words, plotting a coup!

It’s all in ✍️. Coup plot idiots never thought they would fail and this written record of treason and sedition revealed…soon in a trial court.

[towerbum]

18. he better sing like a pickel'd canary! lot's of jail time in front of him !

the insurrection boss won't help out on damn bit !

[Cha]

2. TY & Judge David Carter!

💙💛

[rubbersole]

3. Expose the mastermind(s).

Vegas should set up a betting pool for who is the real brains behind the comprehensive approach to stealing our democracy.
Putin?
Stone?
Manafort?
Leonard Leo?
Koch?
Mercers?
Xi?
Others?

[Lonestarblue]

14. Bannon and Stone together? Lots of possibilities here.

[PSPS]

4. Won't this just disappear into the endless-appeals black hole?

[Alexander Of Assyria]

11. No.

[calimary]

5. Cough 'em up, you S.O.B.!

[brer cat]

6. Good news for the J6 committee!

I hope they get the documents in time to include them in the hearings.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. "a sitting Member of Congress"

Today, you can put an 'h' right after the 's' in 'sitting'

[lastlib]

16. Lotsa repug congressthingies gotta be.....

...dumping their trump in their panties today & tomorrow.

Friday, we'll be hunting them with dogs, with no bag limit.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. December 8, 2020 was the "Safe Harbor" date

And apparently one of the "strategies" was to attempt disrupt at every stage of the process and as a refresher -

What 'safe harbor day' is and why it's bad news for Trump
Congress must count the electoral votes from states that meet the Tuesday deadline.

Dec. 7, 2020, 11:19 AM EST / Updated Dec. 8, 2020, 7:35 AM EST
By Pete Williams

WASHINGTON — States that haven't yet certified their votes for president or that face legal challenges are rushing to resolve any remaining disputes by Tuesday, known as safe harbor day. Under federal law, Congress must count the electoral votes from states that act by Dec. 8 to choose their presidential electors — the people who meet next week in each state to cast the actual votes for president — and to resolve any remaining legal disputes over their choices. The Electoral Count Act was passed in 1887, after four states sent in votes from two different sets of electors from the 1876 presidential race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

Congress had established no mechanism to resolve fights over competing slates of electors, and it adopted the act in hope of heading off future disputes. Under the law, Congress must count the electoral votes from states that chose their electors and resolve any legal disputes over the choices by the act's deadline, which is six days before the electors meet to vote. Of course, if a state fails to meet the safe harbor deadline but chooses its electors by Dec. 14, Congress can still count the votes.

President-elect Joe Biden has 306 electoral votes to President Donald Trump's 232, with 270 needed to win the White House. The safe harbor deadline, however, is something of a guarantee. If, for example, a state legislature decided to send in its own slate, the law says the electors chosen by popular vote and certified by the governor must be counted by Congress from states that met the safe harbor deadline.

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The federal law says a state qualifies for the safe harbor protection if it has resolved "any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors." State court cases remain active in six states that certified Biden as the winner — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada and Wisconsin. So they may not be able to claim the protection unless their cases are resolved by Tuesday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/what-safe-harbor-day-why-it-s-bad-news-trump-n1250205

From the above, aside from MN, note that each of the other highlighted states later became the subject of an "alternate" slate of electors. The one missing in that article's above list at the time, was ours here in PA, and apparently all kinds of "organizing" was going on with respect to how to deal with us.

PA signed off on and submitted their official electors on November 24, 2020 -




But as we know, the "planning" had been underway including a televised super-spreader event held in Gettysburg, PA (one day AFTER the official slate was sent in, on November 25, 2020), lead by the loon who wants to be governor, and why he is still walking free defies logic.

And then that same day, we have the below, and the READOUT needs to happen about this -

President Trump invited Pa. lawmakers to the White House. Then everyone went silent.


by William Bender of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Angela Couloumbis of Spotlight PA | Nov. 27, 2020


President Donald Trump on Wednesday summoned Republican members of the Pennsylvania legislature to the White House after a GOP hearing in Gettysburg in which Trump phoned in to reassert his false claim that he “won Pennsylvania by a lot.” But on Thursday, no one wanted to talk about the meeting. The White House did not issue a public statement about the visit, and lawmakers who made the trip to Washington were silent.

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On Wednesday, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani brought his baseless case to a hearing convened in Gettysburg by the all-Republican state Senate Majority Policy Committee. Giuliani alleged that the election had been stolen and covered up with the assistance of “Big Tech,” the news media, and the courts. Trump called in to the hearing, speaking through attorney Jenna Ellis’ cell phone held up to the microphone, and falsely claimed: “This election was rigged, and we can’t let that happen. This election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot and we won all these swing states by a lot.”

Afterward, several Republican lawmakers from Pennsylvania were invited to the White House to meet with Trump. CNN, citing two sources, said the meeting was expected to take place in the West Wing. The legislature’s Republican leaders — the GOP has a majority in both chambers — were notably not among the attendees, according to the leaders and their spokespeople.

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The White House did not respond to requests for comment about the meeting or who attended. In 2017, the Trump administration stopped making public the names of White House visitors, citing what a spokesperson called “grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.” State Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin), one of the Senate’s most conservative members, was among the lawmakers who went to the White House, legislative sources said. Mastriano played a key role in organizing the Senate Majority Policy Committee hearing in Gettysburg. He did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Trump’s session last week with Republican lawmakers from Michigan was attended by legislative leaders. The president’s allies had been pushing to have the state legislature overturn Biden’s victory and award the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump. After their meeting with Trump, the GOP leaders rebuffed that notion.

(snip)

Inquirer staff writer Jonathan Lai contributed to this article.

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2020/11/trump-pennsylvania-lawmakers-invite-white-house-silence-election-2020/

And there were a billion state and federal suits filed (Marc Elias staying right with every one of them), but the slate of "alternate electors" was eventually developed.

I know I got into it with a troll who flamed out about one such suit in state court, with the thread having happened 4 days after the above-shown official slate was sent to Congress and NARA (which met the "Safe Harbor" date) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214631504

The official electors later met and certified the election with their votes on December 14 in Harrisburg (which I watched on CSPAN - pretty fascinating) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142648046

And as a follow-up

How a Pennsylvania state senator helped fuel Trump's election lies
Jeremy Herb

By Jeremy Herb and Sara Murray, CNN

Updated 8:31 PM ET, Thu October 14, 2021
Pennsylvania state lawmaker's key role in Trump's election lie


(CNN) Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance former President Donald Trump's election lies: He spearheaded a "hearing" at a hotel in Gettysburg a few weeks after the 2020 election, where Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made false claims about election fraud. He chartered buses to ferry his supporters to Washington on January 6. And he was briefly in charge of the Pennsylvania state Senate's partisan "audit" of the 2020 election.

Now Mastriano's role behind the scenes helping Trump try to overturn his loss to Joe Biden is under renewed scrutiny after a Democrat-led Senate Judiciary report released last week revealed his correspondence with the Justice Department spreading debunked claims of fraud. Mastriano is one of three under-the-radar figures the report singles out for further investigation for their efforts helping Trump try to subvert the election.

Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, introduced Trump to a top DOJ official who was open to election conspiracy theories. Attorney Cleta Mitchell helped Trump try to convince Georgia's secretary of state to "find" enough votes for him to win. And Mastriano pushed his fraud claims to the No. 2 Justice official while Trump was trying to convince then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen to publicly say there was fraud in the election, according to the report.

"Election fraud is real and prevalent in Pennsylvania. Yet, despite evidence, our Governor and Secretary of State inexplicably refuse to investigate," Mastriano wrote in a December 28 letter to acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue.

(snip)

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/trump-pennsylvania-mastriano-election/index.html

All those "inside DOJ" people need to be flushed out as well.

(sorry to pile on in here )

[ancianita]

9. Conspiracy to nullify the popular vote through alt-elector fraud is criminal and anti-democratic.

'Overturning' is a popular euphemism. Suppression and nullification are the obsessions of the 'rule of men' cult.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Who ever imagined the depth of the evil in the GOP attempting a soft coup?? Still hard to believe.

Soon enough a jury will believe beyond reasonable doubt, then another jury and another and another…

Before that tho…the mass corporate media needs to both believe and broadcast and stop diverting and coddling the fascists.

[ancianita]

15. Sure, a jury is a major way to stop 'rule of men' authoritarians masquerading as patriots.

Another way to stop them is to be less reactive, give up the habit of shock, disgust, spectator sport politics, 'ain't it awful' talk -- not give them oxygen -- then ACT. And stay at that step.

In messaging, take the profitable deflecting, diverting and coddling as a given, then create media that profitably squash it.

In voting, vote majorities at every level, refuse to allow the media horse race, and just GOTV no matter the hype.

Democrats are as Democrats do.

[MissMillie]

13. sunlight is the best disinfectant

And here comes the sun

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. The incredible mountain of evidence just keeps growing. We are going to have the public hearings

and there is still so much more to learn. The committee has a herculean task ahead of them to convince a majority of the American voting public that the Republican party should henceforth be called the Insurrectionist Party.

[FakeNoose]

19. They're probably the same documents that Mark Meadows "burned"

Somebody should explain to Meadows that emails aren't paper documents. The printouts might be on flammable paper, but the original documents are permanent digital files.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. This part here strikes me as a second, huge consciousness-of-guilt revelation in as many days

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