Posted on 11/11/2021 7:07:02 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold records from the House of Representatives related to the January 6 US Capitol attack based on executive privilege -- a claim rejected by President Joe Biden -- would present the US Supreme Court with a novel legal dilemma.
But past decisions involving assertions of executive privilege to keep documents confidential suggest Trump has a weak case, even if heard by this increasingly conservative high court, with three Trump appointees on the nine-member bench. "The privilege is not for the benefit of the President as an individual, but for the benefit of the Republic," the Supreme Court declared in a 1977 touchstone decision involving former President Richard Nixon.
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They are so dumb. Do they think if they just get the docs they’ll have Trump planning a coup? Enemy of the people is simply not strong enough
But watch how they react when someone pulls exactly the same thing on them.
You mean like the records from Obama, Clinton, and Biden?
They forced a Republican President to resign.
The resident is a demented, perverted, corrupt fool.
The vice resident is a stupid whore that no one likes.
The economy is a mess.
The border is a mess.
Afghanistan is a mess.
The supply chain is a mess.
Going after Trump endlessly is all they have. And to the Dem hard core base, that’s enough.
One hitch is Obama’s EO on exec privilege he
issued on day 2 of his time in office.
It gave retired pres. EP on any doc or phone
call in the national achieves it was never
even challenged.
Remember the tax returns they sought in SDNY. They got them and...nothing. Same will happen here.
Yep.
re: “Supreme Court’s Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump’s executive privilege claims”
Full Stop.
The Jan. 6 committee is illegitimate, just as the last (the 2nd so-called) impeachment of Trump was illegitimate vis-a-vis they violated the establishing RULES in both cases.
NOBODY ADDRESSES THIS.
Bill O’reilly said last night that OBAMA signed an executive order that’s never been challenged so it stands.. it says NO info from the archives for sitting and PAST presidents.
CNN, where the fruits of colonics go to become news readers.
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