Former President Trump 'more likely than not' tried to illegally disrupt the electoral vote count on Jan. 6, 2021, federal judge rules.
"The illegality of the plan was obvious," Judge David Carter wrote of Trump and lawyer John Eastman's plan to have then-Vice President Mike Pence determine the results of the 2020 election.
"The memo recommended that Vice President Pence reject electors from contested states on January 6. This may have been the first time members of President Trump’s team transformed a legal interpretation of the Electoral Count Act into a day-by-day plan of action," the judge wrote, adding that the"draft memo pushed a strategy that knowingly violated the Electoral Count Act, and Dr. Eastman’s later memos closely track its analysis and proposal.
In a joint statement Monday night, Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and vice chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., called Carter's ruling"a victory for the rule of law" and said it"clears the way for the Select Committee to obtain materials important to our investigation."
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