January 6 committee obtains eight emails showing possible planning of post-election crime
Source: CNN Politics
Washington CNN — 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. Eastman had tried several last-ditch attempts to hold off the committee. The panel declined to comment to CNN.
The emails that the committee finally has accessed include four communications between Trump attorneys that appear to indicate they knew details they submitted to courts to challenge the election were false, and four emails that reveal them discussing filing lawsuits as a way to hold off congressional certification of Trump’s electoral loss, Judge David O. Carter previously revealed.
One of the emails describes concern the lawyers had about submitting a declaration signed by Trump himself in a lawsuit challenging the election, which said the election fraud allegations it presented to the court were true, the judge’s previous opinion revealed. The Trump-signed statement was sent to court, even though the lawyers knew the allegations within weren’t sound, according to the court record. Eastman is now asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for an order telling the House to return or destroy the eight emails.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/politics/january-6-committee-2020-election-emails/index.html
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and go with a Russia-style government instead? 
Trust me I get the frustration and it's not like I'm not frustrated too. But then all hell would break loose if we did Ghouliani-Powell Kraken cases that not only lose in court, but get laughed out of court every time, and often with prejudice.
The Ninth Circuit is Justice Kagan's federal district. So good luck with even a stay, Eastman. 
private emails plotting to Obstruct Justice!!
TY, BRDS! 
This "happened" when Bill Barr was still AG.
Joe Biden wasn't inaugurated until January 20, 2021.
Garland wasn't confirmed until months later and then he had to start cleaning house AND remember that who generally directs these at the local level, are the U.S. Attorneys, and there are 94 of them who over those 2 years, have been in the process of being replaced (they were all 45-appointees), which means going through a Senate confirmation process. The busiest one being the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, who was just confirmed barely a year ago.
So far there have been 53 confirmed and 65 nominated
I have written numerous posts over and over on DU about this "timing" thing that people keep bringing up and yes there IS a "legal process". The problem is that people fixate on the WRONG WAY to do a "legal process" - i.e., what we saw the Kraken crew of Ellis, Ghouliani, and Powell do, and assumed that is how "legal" cases are done.
There is no "moving quickly" when it comes to certain types of "crimes" that don't involve actual physical assault, etc. And that requires these grand juries that are NOT like "trial juries". I.e., they are not meeting every day until some case is "settled". They might meet once a month or I saw for one of the grand juries involving J6, they were meeting once a week on Fridays.
At those sessions, the DOJ prosecutors bring in the evidence they have and have witnesses not only testify, but apparently the jurors themselves get to question those witnesses. Much of the delay in that case has been the people subpoenaed either trying to get out of it through the courts or the back and forth of trying to get them scheduled.
Before I retired from the federal government, I had a coworker who was on a federal grand jury and about as much as he could tell me was that he was on it for about a year, and they were only periodically meeting during that time, on average about once every month or two.
So again "the process" is not what people think it is. I.e., it's not "instant" when it comes to these sorts of crimes.
If you challenge BumRushDaShow about anything, she has a unique way presenting truth without belittling
fellow DUers. We can all learn from her examples on how to be civil, after all we are all Democrats.
