Law Professors Should Be Alarmed by the Arguments from the January 6 Committee
.....Eastman was, Judge Carter found, acting as an attorney for Trump and his campaign when he communicated with Trump and with representatives of the campaign. Those communications took place, in part, through Eastman’s email account as a professor at Chapman University. The committee argued that these attorney-client communications should be made public because Eastman used a university email address to communicate with clients: “The Select Committee argues that Dr. Eastman’s use of his Chapman email prevents all of his communications from being privileged given the university’s monitoring policies. . . . The Select Committee argued at the hearing that use of Chapman email destroys privilege for all [documents].”
Think about this argument: You hire a prominent law professor to represent you, and you communicate with him in confidence, and a committee of Congress argues that it can get those communications simply because the university monitors the professor’s email. Judge Carter, quite properly, refused to apply Trump-only rules to this argument:
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.....Eastman was, Judge Carter found, acting as an attorney for Trump and his campaign when he communicated with Trump and with representatives of the campaign. Those communications took place, in part, through Eastman’s email account as a professor at Chapman University. The committee argued that these attorney-client communications should be made public because Eastman used a university email address to communicate with clients: “The Select Committee argues that Dr. Eastman’s use of his Chapman email prevents all of his communications from being privileged given the university’s monitoring policies. . . . The Select Committee argued at the hearing that use of Chapman email destroys privilege for all [documents].”
Think about this argument: You hire a prominent law professor to represent you, and you communicate with him in confidence, and a committee of Congress argues that it can get those communications simply because the university monitors the professor’s email. Judge Carter, quite properly, refused to apply Trump-only rules to this argument:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corn..._medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading