Attorney John Eastman on Tuesday joined his fellow coup plotters in trying to run out the clock on justice, and ultimately democracy. Eastman—the man who penned a legal memo arguing that Vice President Mike Pence had unilateral power to overturn the 2020 election and then later called the theory «crazy»—is suing Verizon and the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 to prevent release of his cellphone data to the panel. Eastman has also declined to cooperate with the Jan. 6 probe, pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. Eastman's lawsuit comes after bombshell disclosures by the Jan. 6 panel of multiple texts sent to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as Trump supporters swarmed the Capitol in search of lawmakers. Meadows, who has now been held in contempt and originally turned over the materials voluntarily, turned on a dime last week and sued the Jan. 6 panel, among others, to block its subpoena. Read more