Judge: DOJ Can See Contents Of Trump Lawyer’s Phone

The right wing Washington Examiner reports:

The lawyer behind a plot to send fake electors to Congress and keep former President Donald Trump in the White House won’t get his phone back from federal investigators.

A federal judge in New Mexico wrote that he isn’t going to keep investigators from using the contents found on John Eastman’s phone from being used as part of an investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

Investigators took Eastman’s phone last month as he was leaving a restaurant. Eastman challenged the investigators’ authority to search the phone. However, U.S. District Judge Robert Brack rejected Eastman’s arguments and said the FBI had the green light to take his phone and unlock it.

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John Eastman loses emergency request to protect his phone data from DOJ investigators | ⁦@kpolantz⁩ https://t.co/XPQzZKzQBJ

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