Post by trueblue on Aug 31, 2022 20:17:09 GMT
'Trump lawyer John Eastman refuses to answer questions from Georgia grand jury'
WASHINGTON – John Eastman, the lawyer who developed former President Donald Trump’s strategy to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory, appeared Wednesday before a Georgia grand jury investigating interference in the 2020 election.
Eastman’s lawyers, Charles Burnham and Harvey Silverglate, issued a statement saying they advised him to refuse to answer questions under his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The lawyers declined to reveal the substance of the questions posed.
“By all indications, the District Attorney’s Office has set itself on an unprecedented path of criminalizing controversial or disfavored legal theories, possibly in hopes that the federal government will follow its lead,” the statement said. “Criminalization of unpopular legal theories is against every American tradition and would have ended the careers of John Adams, Ruth Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall and many other now-celebrated American lawyers."
Eastman’s lawyers, Charles Burnham and Harvey Silverglate, issued a statement saying they advised him to refuse to answer questions under his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The lawyers declined to reveal the substance of the questions posed.
“By all indications, the District Attorney’s Office has set itself on an unprecedented path of criminalizing controversial or disfavored legal theories, possibly in hopes that the federal government will follow its lead,” the statement said. “Criminalization of unpopular legal theories is against every American tradition and would have ended the careers of John Adams, Ruth Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall and many other now-celebrated American lawyers."
Eastman previously refused to answer questions at the House committee investigating the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021, by citing the Fifth Amendment.