The Jan. 6 Committee is asking the judge who said President Donald Trump and his lawyer John Eastman likely committed election-related crimes to decide if a new, larger batch of Eastman’s Chapman University emails is relevant to the conspiracy.

In a 57-page filing Thursday night, House General Counsel Douglas Letter said new information from Eastman bolsters evidence that his efforts to obstruct the counting of the electoral vote extended “well beyond” pressuring Vice President Mike Pence in the days before Jan. 6, 2021.

Douglas Letter, general counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives (ALM photo)

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