January 6 Select Committee

[Kendra]

All these Rs with nothing to hide.

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Kendra]

[Gregg]

A ketchup bottle died a spectacular death tonight.

[Kendra]

Just filed to
@CBSEveningNews


The Jan 6 Cmte is digging deeper into Secret Service

[John Thomas8]

Ya, more noise and no results.

[Kendra]

Congressional investigators looking into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol are planning to call back two senior members from the Secret Service.
@MacFarlaneNews
has the details.

[jemcanada2]

A ketchup bottle died a spectacular death tonight.

They hit every single one of his triggers

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

We now have a Fogbow Famous Quotes!

First entry: A ketchup bottle died a spectacular death tonight - Gregg

[RTH10260]

John Eastman Asks Federal Judge to Reconsider Crime-Fraud Findings on Trump’s Knowledge About ‘Wrong’ Voter Fraud Claims

MEGHANN CUNIFF
Oct 28th, 2022, 8:53 am

Former President Donald Trump’s election lawyer John Eastman is asking a California federal judge to reconsider his ruling that Trump knowingly filed false numbers regarding voter fraud, submitting a sealed email record that he says “clearly shows that the President’s lawyers took great care to ensure all court filings were accurate.”

In a 10-page motion filed Thursday, Eastman’s lawyer Charles Burnham asks U.S. District Judge David O. Carter to reconsider his Oct. 19 order that the crime-fraud exception applies to several privileged emails because Trump knew numbers regarding voters fraud “were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and in the public.” Carter also concluded that some emails “make clear that President Trump filed certain lawsuits not to obtain legal relief, but to disrupt or delay the January 6 congressional proceedings through the courts,” which Burnham’s filing said is not true.

“Dr. Eastman submits that the full email record demonstrates that the legal filings were all designed to obtain a ruling from the court on the contested election challenges,” according to the motion.

Burnham filed a sealed affidavit identifying documents Carter has already reviewed “explain the true import of the email record surrounding the Presidential certification submitted” in Trump’s federal lawsuit in Georgia. He said the affidavit and referenced documents “clearly show that no false information was knowingly submitted by the President or his attorneys, and that the complaint was not filed for an improper purpose.”




https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/j ... ud-claims/

[Slim Cognito]

[Dave from down under]

[Dr. Ken]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/politics ... index.html

January 6 committee obtains eight emails showing possible planning of post-election crime

The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained eight emails from late 2020 that a judge determined show Donald Trump and his lawyers planning to defraud courts and obstruct the congressional vote on the presidency.

A new court filing from Trump’s then-attorney John Eastman disclosed that the House said it had accessed the emails on Friday.

The House probe has been fighting for the records for months, and a federal judge cleared the way for the committee to receive them in recent weeks, calling them possible evidence of the planning of crimes on Trump’s behalf.

[Kendra]

NEWS: We've obtained the 8 emails that a judge ordered John Eastman to turn over to the Jan. 6 select committee as a result of the "crime-fraud" exception to attorney privilege.

CNN reporting on air about this as well.

[northland10]

UPDATE: #SCOTUS Justice Kagan temporarily blocks House select committee subpoena for AZ GOP Chair Kelli Ward's phone records. House will weigh in by Friday. Via @kyledcheney @nicholaswu12

Just wanted to point out that it was Kagan this time ordering a temporary stay. Thomas entered a stay and some folks screamed it was inappropriate.

Thomas is an embarrassment to the court, the judiciary, the USA, and the law; however, in the case of stay, it was not unusual.

[Gupwalla]

Just wanted to point out that it was Kagan this time ordering a temporary stay. Thomas entered a stay and some folks screamed it was inappropriate.

J. Kagan is assigned to the 9th Circuit, which includes Arizona.

J. Thomas is assigned to the 11th Circuit, which includes both Florida and Georgia.

C.J. Roberts has the Federal Circuit, including DC.

None of this should be too surprising. It’s how the courts work. You petition the Justice in the relevant circuit, and he or she (or much more likely, the clerks) will apply some basic gatekeeping rules.

[Dr. Ken]

[New Turtle]

Eastman's attorney filed a live Dropbox link, that's how they became public.

[Dave from down under]

Eastman's attorney filed a live Dropbox link, that's how they became public.

[northland10]

I don't recall this being posted elsewhere so, for completeness.

MEMORANDUM OPINION
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows challenges the validity of subpoenas issued by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. His claims raise a number of unsettled questions, including whether a senior aide to a former President can be compelled to testify before Congress; whether a former President can validly assert executive privilege; and whether a sitting President may override a former President’s claim of privilege. Before the Court can wrestle with those issues, however, it must first address whether the Speech or Debate Clause bars this suit. The Court concludes that it does, and it therefore dismisses Meadows’s claims for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

Judge Nichols found a way to punt the EP whine by saying "speech and debate clause." In this case, it was Meadows suing, so it would trigger the speech and debate clause whereas a criminal case against Meadows for contempt would not.

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/sh ... 1cv3217-49

[Kendra]

Today is the deadline for tfg to turn documents over to the Committee.

[raison de arizona]

Just in: Jan. 6 committee confirms Trump has responded to subpoena: “We have informed the former President’s counsel that he must begin producing records no later than next week and he remains under subpoena for deposition testimony starting on November 14th.”

[tek]

Hm.. so maybe that's the reason for all the speculation that he's going to announce he's running for President on the 14th

[RTH10260]

... cause then he will gain immediatly executive privilege back

[Foggy]

Except no, he won't. Wouldn't it be nice if you could get executive privilege for running for president?

We had a guy serving time in the West Virginia prison system who ran for president and became one of Orly's clients plaintiffs back in 2012, didn't we? I think we have to let that guy out if he says he's running for president. How's he gonna campaign if he can't leave his prison cell?

And Trump is going to have the same problems, the poor bunny.

[Gupwalla]

How's he gonna campaign if he can't leave his prison cell?

Gene Debs ran for President five times. The last time he was in federal prison for his participation in the Pullman Strike.

So there is precedent for letting Trump campaign from federal prison. We should not let his potential candidacy get in the way of Justice.