Judge Blasts Eastman’s Attempt To Reclaim His Phone

Politico reports:

A federal judge on Friday denied an effort by John Eastman, the attorney who helped devise Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to subvert the 2020 election, to reclaim his phone from the Justice Department.

New Mexico-based Senior U.S. District Court Judge Robert Brack ruled that Eastman had failed to show that the government’s seizure of his phone — by FBI agents who confronted him outside a restaurant in June — had caused “irreparable harm.”

Brack noted that Eastman had obtained a replacement phone and that his desire to bar the government from combing the contents of his seized phone was not a sufficient reason to reclaim it from the Justice Department. “Eastman wholly fails to show and in fact disclaims any need for the actual phone,” Brack noted in the 17-page ruling.

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NEW: The judge said Eastman had failed to show the seizure of his phone had caused him irreparable harm and that he’s fighting in “the wrong court.” He should take his fight to DC, the judge said. https://t.co/7OcZlbTlnG

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) October 14, 2022