John Eastman denied "any effort to 'obstruct' results" of the 2020 presidential election in a new filing Monday that calls the Jan. 6 committee's crime-fraud argument "bogus."

The 27-page reply to the committee's criminal theory against former President Donald Trump defends violations of the Electoral Count Act as necessary to fight unconstitutionality, and it says the committee disagreeing with Eastman's legal advice "does not convert his representation of former President Trump into a criminal matter."

Dean John Eastman of Chapman University School of Law, during a panel discussion at the Annual Federalist Society convention. November 21, 2008. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/LEGAL TIMES. John Eastman (Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)