Judge Refuses to Walk Back Decision to Give John Eastman's Georgia Election Emails to Jan. 6 Commit

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Judge Refuses to Walk Back Decision to Give John Eastman’s Georgia Election Emails to Jan. 6 Committee

MEGHANN CUNIFF
Oct 29th, 2022, 10:19 am

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by John Eastman to reconsider a ruling to release a group of Eastman’s emails to the Jan. 6 Committee. The judge agreed that the Committee had put forth a prima facie case — a basic, plausible, first-impression argument — that Eastman and Donald Trump knowingly “engaged in criminal or fraudulent conduct” when communicating about the 2020 election and conjuring up claims of voter fraud.

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter said Eastman’s most recent request “fails to meet the standards governing motions for reconsideration or a stay” and stood by his decision to apply the crime-fraud exception to privileged documents on Eastman’s Chapman University email server.

“Dr. Eastman’s affidavit presents no evidence that the Court ‘manifestly failed’ to consider when ruling that the crime-fraud exception applies,” Carter wrote in a six-page order issued less than 24 hours after Eastman filed his 10-page reconsideration motion.

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