On Tuesday night, a Santa Ana, California, federal district court ordered former Trump lawyer John Eastman to turn over 159 more of his emails to the House Select Committee investigating the conspiracy to end our democracy. Judge David O. Carter found another 440 emails protected.

On March 31, Judge Carter had already ordered disclosure of 101 Eastman emails now in the committee's hands. Eastman had unsuccessfully asserted that the attorney work-product and attorney-client privileges protected them, often because they ran afoul of the crime-fraud exception.