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John Eastman said in a June 27 court filing that federal agents took his phone six days earlier during the execution of a search warrant in New Mexico. In the filing, Eastman said agents stopped him on June 22 outside a restaurant, searched him under warrant authority and seized the device. The filing was a request for the return of seized property under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41(g). ([law.justia.com](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-mexico/nmdce/1%3A2022mc00023/476086/24/))

The warrant and Eastman’s filing tied the seizure to a broader federal investigation into events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Eastman was a central legal figure in Trump’s post-election push, including arguments that then-Vice President Mike Pence could delay or reject electoral vote certification. ([law.justia.com](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-mexico/nmdce/1%3A2022mc00023/476086/24/))

Separate from Eastman’s filing, the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 said it would hold an unexpected hearing on June 28 at 1 p.m. The committee said it would present recently obtained evidence and hear witness testimony, but it did not spell out the material in advance. ([]())

The two developments were not connected on paper, but they landed on the same day and kept the Jan. 6 investigation moving on two fronts: one in court over a seized phone, the other in public with lawmakers preparing to unveil new information. Eastman’s filing did not identify what investigators were looking for, and the committee did not say who would testify at the hearing. ([law.justia.com](https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-mexico/nmdce/1%3A2022mc00023/476086/24/))