The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill says investigators have reason to believe former President Donald Trump and his associates broke multiple laws in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
In a brief filed Wednesday in response to a lawsuit brought by John Eastman, a Trump-linked conservative lawyer, the committee talks of evidence showing that Trump may have engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, illegally impeding Congress's counting of electoral votes, and lying to the public."As discussed in the Background section above, evidence and information available to the Committee establishes a good-faith belief that Mr.
Eastman filed his lawsuit against the committee seeking to quash a subpoena demanding that he turn over key emails to investigators. He argued that thousands of emails should be withheld due to attorney-client or attorney work-product privileges. The committee countered that Eastman did not have a"legitimate attorney-client relationship" with Trump during the time period in question and that his work was not done in"anticipation of litigation.
Eastman's lawyer, Charles Burnham, argued that his client had a legitimate obligation to maintain attorney-client privilege and hinted at a rebuttal to the Jan. 6 committee's court filing.
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