A three-judge panel in the DC federal appeals court sided with former Justice Department attorney (general?) Jeffrey Clark, ruling that Clark did not have to comply with an order from DC bar investigators to turn over potentially incriminating documents, Politico reports.
Believed to be one of the six unnamed co-conspirators in Donald Trump’s DC federal case and known to be a Fulton County co-defendant, Clark is alleged to have led an effort to have the Justice Department distribute a letter falsely claiming federal investigators found evidence of tampering or fraud. The court ruled, however, that forcing Clark to turn over the documents from the time to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel “infringes on Mr. Clark’s Fifth Amendment right not to be compelled to be a witness against himself.”