John Eastman, who was an attorney for the Trump campaign, has filed a notice of his appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit after a federal judge reaffirmed an order asking that the lawyer hand over certain emails to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach incident.
Eastman had aided in the preparation of legal filings for Trump that contested the results of the 2020 presidential race in multiple states. The Jan. 6 committee contends that the filings were an attempt to overthrow the government. The committee asked for access to some of Eastman’s communications.
In an Oct. 19 order (pdf), California-based federal Judge David Carter claimed that former President Donald Trump “knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and to the public.”…