Trump lawyer ordered to respond to January 6 committee subpoena for his Chapman University emails
CNN
A federal judge is forcing a conservative lawyer who had worked with then-President Donald Trump's legal team to respond to a House select committee subpoena of his former employer for his emails -- setting congressional investigators up to receive access to information they've wanted for months but had not been able to get.
A lawyer for John Eastman told a judge on Monday that his client had been working for Trump when he told state legislators on January 2 they needed to "fix this, this egregious conduct" that would put Joe Biden in the White House, when he was in the Willard Hotel with other Trump contacts, and when he met with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on January 3 about blocking the congressional certification of the 2020 vote.
The admissions from Eastman's lawyer, Charles Burnham, are the clearest statements yet on how much Eastman was doing on Trump's behalf -- rather than on his own initiative -- in the days leading up to January 6, 2021.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.