Among the documents to be handed over to the select committee are 10 that Carter found are "closely tied" to its investigation. The records, he wrote, relate to three meetings held in the first two weeks of December 2020 by a group of Trump's supporters, which had a "high-profile leader," and included discussions about efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Four of those 10 documents pertain to a meeting on Dec. 8, and five others include the agenda for a meeting Dec. 9, which include a section entitled "'GROUND GAME following Nov 4 Election Results,' during which a sitting Member of Congress discussed a '[p]lan to challenge the electors in the House of Representatives,'" according to Carter's order.
The 10th document contained the agenda for a Dec. 16 meeting.
"The select committee has a substantial interest in these three meetings because the presentations furthered a critical objective of the January 6 plan: to have contested states certify alternate slates of electors for President Trump," Carter wrote, adding that in the weeks before the December meetings, Eastman sent memos to "high-level White House staff" about the plan to overturn the election results.
The conservative attorney also contacted "sympathetic state legislators" in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona, key battleground states Trump lost, urging them to decertify presidential electors for President Biden and instead certify an alternate slate of pro-Trump electors, according to the court's order.
