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I have skimmed this filing and it is well done.
Link to tweet
https://january6th.house.gov/news/press-releases/thompson-cheney-statement-filing-eastman-lawsuit
The Select Committees brief refutes on numerous grounds the privilege claims Dr. Eastman has made to try to keep hidden records critical to our investigation. The Select Committee is not conducting a criminal investigation. But, as the judge noted at a previous hearing, Dr. Eastmans privilege claims raise the question whether the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege applies in this situation. We believe evidence in our possession justifies review of these documents under this exception in camera. The facts weve gathered strongly suggest that Dr. Eastmans emails may show that he helped Donald Trump advance a corrupt scheme to obstruct the counting of electoral college ballots and a conspiracy to impede the transfer of power.
We look forward to the Courts review of our filing as the Select Committees investigation moves forward.
Background on the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege:
Communications in which a client consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud or crime are not privileged from disclosure. In re Grand Jury Investigation, 810 F.3d 1110, 1113 (9th Cir. 2016) (internal quotations omitted). This exception to the attorney-client privilege applies where (1) the client was engaged in or planning a criminal or fraudulent scheme when it sought the advice of counsel to further the scheme, and (2) the attorney-client communications for which production is sought are sufficiently related to and were made in furtherance of [the] intended, or present, continuing illegality. Id. at 381-83 (internal quotation marks omitted). This exception to the privilege applies even when the crime or fraud is ultimately unsuccessful. In re Grand Jury Proceedings (Corporation), 87 F.3d 377, 382 (9th Cir. 1996).
An in camera review of the documents is warranted when the party seeking production has provided a factual basis adequate to support a good faith belief by a reasonable person that in camera review of the materials may reveal evidence to establish the claim that the crime-fraud exception applies. United States v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554, 572 (1989) (citation omitted).
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Ohio Joe
(21,748 posts)Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)May you live in a black fog of terror and sweat, day and night, for what you did to our country
FUCK RIGHT OFF
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)And your link is broken. Fix it, if you care about your readers.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)that language died in the last century
oldsoftie
(12,514 posts)Sometimes you can't help it
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)oldsoftie
(12,514 posts)The poster wasn't self aggrandizing. Its capital letters; who cares.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)oldsoftie
(12,514 posts)"THOMPSON & CHENEY STATEMENT ON FILING IN EASTMAN LAWSUIT"
That's how the writers titled their article. Sorry if it triggers you to see capital letters. is it really that big a deal?
FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)I've done it many times myself, and I've never been called for it.
All caps is insulting to many DUers.
Just sayin'
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)None of this is all caps:
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The Select Committee is filing a brief in the lawsuit filed by Professor John Eastman in his attempt to keep records hidden behind claims of attorney-client privilege.
In the brief, the Committee lays out numerous arguments refuting Eastmans claims.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,982 posts)oldsoftie
(12,514 posts)Its right there if you look at the whole post. So I don't click twister links. Jeeze no wonder so many people here get their feelings out of whack over the simplest things. You acted like the poster did it intentionally & he didn't. Thats all it is.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The many Republicans who betrayed America and American democracy should be exiled to Siberia where they can fully indulge their shrunken-soul worship for Russia, Putin, guns, and misery.