Judge Orders Trump to Reveal Advice-of-Counsel Defense

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan recently issued an adroit but little-noticed order in the federal Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump . It will probably preempt a whole lot of mischief and delay by the defendant. Chutkan’s order last week granted prosecutors’ motion to require Trump to reveal whether he will assert an advice-of-counsel defense in the trial scheduled to begin in March.

If Trump intends to blame his lawyers for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he has to put up or shut up by Jan. 15. He is likely to shut up. Trump has repeatedly suggested that he relied on his attorneys’ advice in undertaking his flagrantly unconstitutional conduct after the election. Most expressly, Trump’s lawyer John Lauro claimed on “Meet the Press” in August that what his client was “indicted for, ultimately, is following legal advice from an esteemed scholar, John Eastman.” Lauro added that Trump was also following Eastman’s advice when he “petitioned Mike Pence” to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s electio

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