Eastman wrote key legal notes to deny Democratic Joe Biden victory. The judge examined whether Eastman’s communications were protected by the privilege of being a solicitor and partly analyzed whether Eastman and Trump had consulted on a crime. The story goes on under the ad “Based on the evidence, the Court considers it more likely that President Trump attempted corruption to prevent the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021,” Carter wrote. A Trump spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither Eastman nor his lawyers responded to messages asking for comment. Carter’s decision, which was appointed to the presidency in 1998 by President Bill Clinton, does not mean that Trump will be charged or even investigated for a crime. But it will increase pressure on the Justice Department to step up its investigation into the Jan. 6 uprising and possibly look into Trump’s own behavior. The story goes on under the ad In its decision, Carter said he was evaluating legal arguments about whether Eastman could be forced to submit documents to the Jan. 6 commission – without deciding how the legal system should respond to Trump’s actions. However, he suggested that someone else should hold Trump and his allies accountable. “More than a year after the attack on our Capitol, the public is still demanding accountability. “This case can not offer it,” Carter wrote. “The court is only in charge of resolving a dispute over a handful of emails. This is not a criminal prosecution. this is not even a civil liability lawsuit “. A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice declined to comment. Former United States Attorney Joyce White Vance said that in assessing whether Trump had committed a crime, Carter only said that “the superiority of the evidence” proved the same. This legal model in civil cases, he said, is less stringent than what prosecutors should have demonstrated: that the evidence showed that Trump was guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The story goes on under the ad “But,” Vance added, “the evidence is convincing.” Carter’s 44-page opinion provides a careful analysis of the 111 documents the committee requested, concluding that lawmakers are entitled to have 101 of them. Evaluates emails in different batches, examining whether the panel should have access to them or whether they should be protected by the privilege of a lawyer-client. Most importantly, the decision assesses whether 11 of the documents should be delivered because of what is known as a “crime-fraud exception”. This exception allows the commission to circumvent the attorney-client privilege if lawmakers can display the communications they seek to promote a crime. The story goes on under the ad The commission’s lawyers had earlier this month claimed that Trump and key allies were involved in possible crimes in an attempt to overthrow the election. They specifically mentioned a conspiracy to deceive the United States and obstruct a formal process in Congress – the counting of ballots. These efforts, he argued, should invalidate Eastman’s claim that his documents were protected by the privilege of being a lawyer. Carter dismissed all possible allegations, analyzing the actions taken by Trump and others before Jan. 6. He spoke at length about Trump’s push for Vice President Pence “to determine the results of the 2020 elections himself “. On Jan. 4, the judge wrote, Trump and Eastman hosted a meeting at the Oval Office with Pence and his advisers, and Eastman presented a plan that “focuses on either rejecting voters or delaying the count. When Pence was not convinced, the judge wrote, Trump sent Eastman to discuss the plan with Pence’s lawyer. At that meeting, the judge wrote, Eastman was blunt about his intentions, saying, “I am here asking you to reject the electorate.” The story goes on under the ad On Jan. 6, the judge wrote, Trump tweeted urging Pence to act and called on Pence directly, urging him to “make the call” and implement the plan. Then Trump gave a speech to a large crowd on the Ellipse warning: “… Mike Pence, I hope you will defend the good of our Constitution and the good of our country. And if you are not, I will be very disappointed by “I’ll tell you right now.” Trump ended his speech by asking his supporters to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to give Pence and Congress “the pride and courage they need to get our country back,” the judge wrote. “Together, these actions are likely to be an attempt to obstruct a formal process,” he said. The story goes on under the ad Carter wrote that Eastman and Trump “justified the plan with allegations of electoral fraud – but President Trump probably knew the justification was unfounded and therefore the whole plan was illegal.” The judge noted, as the Jan. 6 commission had said, that executive officials had “publicly stated and privately emphasized to President Trump that there was no evidence of fraud” and in early January “more than sixty courts rejected cases alleging fraud in the absence of legality or lack of evidence “. “Dr. “Eastman and President Trump have launched a campaign to overthrow democratic elections, an action unprecedented in American history.” “Their campaign was not limited to the ivory tower – it was a coup in search of a legal theory. “The plan provoked violent attacks on the seat of government of our nation, led to the death of several law enforcement officers and deepened public distrust in our political process.” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (California) and former President Donald Trump have expanded in recent months on what they said during their Jan. 6 speech. (Video: JM Rieger / The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post) The judge finally ruled that lawmakers could only access one of the eleven documents he analyzed to see if they met the conditions for excluding criminal fraud. This document was “a chain that he passed on to Dr. Eastman is a draft note written for President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. The story goes on under the ad Carter wrote that the note advised Vice President Mike Pence to reject voters from the disputed states on Jan. 6. “This may be the first time that members of President Trump’s team have turned a legal interpretation of the election counting law into a daily action plan,” the judge wrote. “The draft note prompted a strategy that knowingly violated the law on the counting of elections and the subsequent notes of Dr. Eastman is closely following his analysis and proposal. The note is closely linked to the plan to block the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021 and clearly promotes it. Nine of the eleven documents were “emails or attachments discussing active lawsuits in state and federal courts,” the judge wrote. The other was an email sent late on January 6, when Congress resumed its work after the attack on the Capitol, which “responded to a request to participate in the work of Dr. “Eastman on behalf of President Trump,” the judge wrote. “While the email discusses Vice President Pence’s refusal to reject or delay the counting of the election, the email was not ‘in itself promoting’ the plan and therefore does not fall within the exclusion of criminal fraud,” the judge wrote.
