Federal judge supports seizure of John Eastman’s cell phone for January 6 inquiry

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The US Justice Department was justified when it seized the cell phone of John Eastman, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, a federal judge in New Mexico ruled on Friday.

In its investigation into a scheme by the ex-president and his lawyers to overturn the 2020 election using “fake electors”, the justice department took Eastman’s phone on 22 June as he was leaving a restaurant in Santa Fe, in turn, filed a court motion in an attempt to get his phone back, arguing that the justice department violated his constitutional rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/16/john-eastman-cell-phone-seized-january-6
 
"Eastman told Trump that Mike Pence, in his role as vice-president, could single-handedly interfere with the largely symbolic certification of the electoral college that showed Biden as winner of the presidential election. Eastman and Trump tried to convince the vice-president then to hold up the proceedings, but Pence denied that he had the legal right to do so and refused to cooperate.

Pence’s legal advisers told the January 6 committee that he had to fend off mounting pressure from Eastman to go along with the plan."
 
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