John Eastman

Help us,” Eastman said on Fox News. “Help us fight this abuse. We've got to stand together to fight against this"

By June, a judge had ordered Eastman to submit 159 documents to the panel. "But there's no indication of any crime that this is connected to. "Well, we don't know because the warrant doesn't say," Eastman replied.

John Eastman testifies. John Eastman, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, filed a motion in federal court last week to force ...

The panel has described Eastman as a key driver of Trump’s fringe effort to overturn the 2020 election when Congress convened on Jan. 6 to count electoral votes. More than a dozen witnesses have sued to block the committee from obtaining those records, and many of those suits are still pending. His case has been assigned to Judge Robert Brack, a George W. Bush appointee who took senior status in 2018.

Two Republican lawyers appear to have been the key architects behind Trump's post-election plot. They've now both been visited by federal law enforcement.

Told that the execution of his coup scheme would likely lead to civil unrest and violence in American streets, Eastman was indifferent. The agents patted Eastman down, seized his phone and “forced” him to unlock it, he said. Eastman was not, however, merely a behind-the-scenes author of a ridiculous memo. What we did not know until yesterday was that on the same day law enforcement searched Clark's home, Eastman was also approached by the feds. The number of people who were involved in trying to execute Donald Trump’s post-election plot was fairly large, and included Republicans working at the local, state, and federal level. Last week, federal investigators descended on Clark’s home as part of the Justice Department’s investigation.

Eastman is a close ally of former President Donald Trump and has been a central figure in the investigation into the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

Trump and Eastman, Judge David Carter wrote, "launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Eastman was served with a search warrant while leaving a restaurant on June 22, frisked, and then "forced to provide biometric data to open said phone," the filing said. The Department of Justice is conducting its own criminal probe into efforts to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

Eastman is said to have asked to see the warrant, but the "executing officer" refused; a copy was later provided to him. He was then frisked and his iPhone Pro ...

CU Boulder is committed to the free exchange of ideas and the pursuit of knowledge, and Professor Eastman has contributed nothing of value to support the ideals of either the Benson Center or CU Boulder." He was then frisked and his iPhone Pro 12 seized; Eastman "was forced to provide biometric data to open said phone" — presumably unlocking it by way of a facial scan. No matter what data the phone contains, the Eastman matter is likely to bring more embarrassment to the University of Colorado Boulder. At the time of the January 6, 2021, insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol, Eastman was a visiting scholar at the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, a privately funded branch of CU Boulder that was launched in the early 2000s as a way to add conservative voices at the famously liberal institution. It continued: "John Eastman's direct and personal role in the near-destruction of American democracy while serving as the Benson Center's visiting scholar has exposed the broken reasoning at the heart of the Center's existence. The document is written in particularly dense legalese, with Eastman typically referred to as "Movant," the technical term for a party who makes a motion in a case. January 6 committee will hold what's been described as a surprise hearing"to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."

Eastman, who urged Mike Pence to block the certification of election results, previously refused to comply with subpoenas from Congress.

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