Fed. Judge: Trump Knowingly Pushed False Voter Fraud Claims.
“Communications from conservative lawyer John Eastman show former President Donald Trump and his lawyers pushed claims of voter fraud he knew to be false in federal court and to the public in order to delay the counting of state electoral votes by Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal judge in California said in an order Wednesday.
The revelation from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter came as part of an ongoing legal battle between Eastman, a conservative lawyer behind the legal strategy to reject state electoral votes, and the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol over emails it subpoenaed from Eastman.
Eastman has sought to keep the emails — from an account he used while serving as dean at Chapman University — from the select committee, asserting they are covered by attorney-client and work product privilege. Carter has been reviewing the records to determine whether Eastman’s privilege assertions apply to the materials sought by the House panel.”
Election integrity is a load bearing wall, if not the load bearing wall, upon which all other structures in a democracy are based. Attacks on the integrity of American elections are now common place and are placing tremendous stress on our ability to conduct free and fair elections free of outside influence. Tragically, many of the attacks have come from the very members of the highest levels of government when elections don’t turn out the way they hoped for.
