The conservative attorney who helped out developing former US President Donald Trump’s plan to tilt the November 3, 2020 election, John Eastman, has produced thousands of pages of crucial e-mails to the January 6th Committee inquiring the deadly Capitol riot but is retaining thousands more, according to court documents Sunday.

A Chapman University law professor John Eastman, who helped craft Donald Trump’s baseless argument that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen, has handed over about 8000 pages of crucial e-mails to the House Select Committee while holding back nearly eleven thousand pages because it’s what he calls privileged evidence.

Moreover, the news figure came ahead of the meeting of House lawyers and Eastman with a U.S. judge on late Feb. 14 regarding the continuing disagreement over a subpoena of Chapman University e-mail account of John Eastman. As an outside lawyer occupied with the former President, John Eastman pushed a fringe legal theory for how to alleged Mike Pence, the former US-Vice President, could obstruct the counting of the Electoral College vote in the U.S. Congress.

Claimed 5th Amendment Against Self-Implication

The United States House has been challenging the hard work of John Eastman in the court to hold back e-mails the panel had issued subpoena. In addition, Eastman still has to sort through an extra 48000 pages. The federal judge will decide what eventually could be kept from the chamber. The e-mail-shifting of John Eastman for the U.S. House is likely to take numerous weeks, but the U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter has made efforts to put John C. Eastman on a quick schedule.

David Carter said in an order late Monday that he’d hear opinions in early March over if the e-mails John Eastman is withholding from the U.S. House with the crucial dates of 4-7th January last year, should stay undisclosed. The U.S. judge ordered Mr. Eastman in January to give a response to the subpoena of the Select Panel of Chapman University for his crucial electronic messages.

Previously, Mr. Eastman rejected to produce material to the U.S. House when it issued a subpoena to him directly for responsive documents. Earlier, a House attorney told media that he had also asserted his Fifth Amendment defense against self-implication as a reaction to about 150 queries and to his subpoena.

The U.S. Capitol attack inquiry committee then went to Chapman University to pursue his records. The institution received a House summon, and Mr. Eastman sued to interrupt it, pulling the argument into the US District Court for California. The inquiry panel has belligerently subpoenaed for documents and evidence, sweeping in several thousands of responsive documents as it speaks ex-Trump government officials to probe what unfolded formerly and during the Capitol attack.