Posted on 01/19/2022 3:43:00 PM PST by Coronal
Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday spurned a request from former President Donald Trump to block the release of documents from the Trump White House to the House select committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
The order from the high court clears the way for the National Archives to turn over to House investigators records they requested related to the breach of the Capitol by scores of Trump's supporters. President Biden waived executive privilege over the documents.
Only Justice Clarence Thomas noted that he would have granted Trump's request.
Trump asked the high court last month to stop the transfer of records to the select committee after a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia rejected his efforts to shield the documents from lawmakers.
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I agree shameful, but remember what goes around comes around. Hope the RATS know that!
This is a bad ruling and was done largely on dissatisfaction with Pres. Trump’s personality and those who resisted his policies on MAGA. Yes, the big crowd became passionate and rowdy Jan. 6 but got out of control due to lack of enough police/troops to guard the Capitol and agent provocateurs seeded into the crowd.
Future presidents will now be subject to subpoenas on issues such as policy, discretional decisions and even national security. This will not be good as presidents need some shielding of how decisions are made to be effective leaders. Picking apart every decision in retrospect will erode a decisions.
Opens a Pandor’s Box.
Big Time.
Trump should start talking about maybe it would be a good thing to pack the court after all. I'm not sure just nine justices is proportional to over 300 million. So maybe twenty seven justices would be more appropriate. That's only 9 or so per hundred million.
So how about in 2024 after he wins reelection and the republicans have the majority we add another 18 justices to the court. Maybe he could mention this at his next rally. That might give the 9 we have now something to think about.
Trump probably knows there’s nothing there so this turns out to be another nothingburger. Like Mueller, tax returns, etc.
I totally disagree with the SCOTUS ruling, as I usually align with Justice Thomas on just about everything . . . but do any of us believe that there is any there there? Other than to witch-hunting Democrats. I expect this to be another Russia! Russia! Russia! smoke screen.
Since the Constitution defends the view that all are innocent until PROVEN guilty - what would preclude 45 from running for 47?
The un select committee is after the PEADs. I doubt they will get to them but that’s their whole goal with this committee. They know Trump set something in motion before he left DC and that he’s up to something but they just don’t know the plan.
“ what goes around comes around. Hope the RATS know that!”
Not in DC. What goes around rarely ever comes around.
Well certainly RATT knew that.
I like to think Scalia would have been with Thomas on this. He was a strict constructionist. I miss Antonin.
Per James Rosen and his interview just given on Newsmax, he said the Supreme Court did *NOT* actually rule on whether a former President can still claim Executive Privilege on discussions previously held while in office, which apparently was Trump’s request and still remains unsettled law, but instead they basically chickened out (my words) and just deferred to the lower court decision which relied on similar but not exact rulings from Watergate.
So they wussed out on even hearing the case apparently.
What is a PEAD?
If they can't take the pressure of being a SC Justice, they should resign. They were hired to rule on cases, not to punt.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
I think it’s due to trump not having executive privilege anymore. It expired January 20, 2020.
Of coarse they do they are compromised just ask Roberts
Thomas. The last great, conservative USSC Justice.
PEADs are presidential emergency action documents. Trump signed some before he left DC. They are highly classified and Congress does not have access to them. Most likely they set devolution in play which is a form of continuity of government. This unselect committee is desperate to get their hands on any notes or conversations from the White house that might give them a clue of what is in those documents.
They did rule on it. The lower courts said that (1) former Presidents can never invoke executive privilege over the opposition of the incumbent President, and (2) even if they could, the documents sought by Congress were subject to the exceptions to executive privilege which SCOTUS recognized in the US v. Nixon case. SCOTUS said that the lower courts' decision on issue (2) was clearly correct, and that their decision on issue (1) is therefore dicta and not binding precedent.
Me 2
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