Former Trump Lawyer Files Petition With US Supreme Court

A erstwhile lawyer to Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse little tribunal rulings that enabled the now-defunct House January 6 committee to entree information, arguing that those decisions harm the erstwhile president’s statesmanlike aspirations. A petition (pdf) filed by John Eastman with the Supreme Court argued that a March 2022 ruling handed down by Judge David O. Carter, an appointee of erstwhile President Bill Clinton, “created a stigma for s...