A federal judge said Monday that former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election.
Highlights
- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S.
- Supreme Court, would become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court if confirmed.
- Former President Donald Trump and right-wing attorney John Eastman may have been planning a crime as they sought to disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the presidential election.
- Neither the judge nor the House committee has the.
- ability to prosecute Trump or his allies for the conspiracy being alleged.
- That decision falls to the Justice Department, which is facing pressure from the left to more aggressively go after those – like Trump and his inner circle – whose involvement in the.