Posted on 05/14/2020 5:27:51 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has ordered the White House to turn over 20 emails directly relating to President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold congressionally appropriated military aid from Ukraine. The administration has refused to produce the communications thus far, claiming the documents are protected from public release by executive privilege.
The order, issued by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, stems from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the New York Times which sought communications between Michael Duffey, Principal Associate Director for National Security Programs at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Robert Blair, a senior advisor to then-Acting White House Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney.
In response to a court order to produce the requested records, the administration withheld 20 documents contending that they were covered by the Presidential Communications Privilege and were therefore exempted from public disclosure laws.
“Specifically, the documents in this category are emails that reflect communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine,” OMB Deputy General Counsel Heather Walsh, the official in charge of overseeing the department’s FOIA request responses, previously stated of the decision. She reasoned that disclosing the communications could “risk harming the quality of the information and advice” available to the President.
The Times challenged the exempt classification of the documents, claiming the government failed to provide any evidence that the information fell within the privilege which requires “an actual advisory relationship between the President and the staffer as to that specific document.”
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PDJT should tweet to the judge to go F himself.
This judge will purposely rule the wrong way just to make the administration take appeal, negative optics in th epress, etc.
DC Judiciary is just as dirty as FBI’s Comey, Hoover and assorted other sociopaths in the government.
I agree. But she should go F herself, evil beyotch that she is.
As long as they control the headlines, the Democrats & media control about half the population (maybe more.)
I just hope they all remember this when the shoe is on the other foot. Harassment of the president will continue and escalate in future years regardless of party.
I’ll be surprised if any republican harasses any democrat President.
The US Supreme Court will have something to say about that on appeal. So far they have ruled for Trump every single time.
I agree. But she should go F herself, evil beyotch that she is.
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Yes, but it’s a leftist. You never know if they’re male, female, or something in-between.
As long as they control the headlines, the Democrats & media control about half the population (maybe more.)
There are many reasons why someone votes DEMOCRAT (or REPUBLICAN) but I don’t think you can define just one thing as the reason.
Roger Stone case? Ordering material from a party that is not part of the case before the court?
What do documents pertaining to the Ukraine have to do with Roger Stone? How does that work exactly?
We need to give conservatives some hellish majorities so we can impeach the cadre of useless scum from our government.
No. Stupid headline.
Same dirty judge though.
I never made such a claim. I made a simple statement which infers that roughly half the population doesn't bother to read past a headline. One need only take a look through the days posts here on FR to know that's true. More people comment based a posts title than the actual content of the post itself.
Control the headlines, you control about half the population. That is exactly how the Democrats and the media operate.
"You LIE!"
I said “harasses”, not “makes a one-time comment for which the representative was reprimanded by his own party”.
Sounds like Judge Amy Berman Jackson is blocking for Biden call in all his e-mails.
They wag their tails and tell the Democrats they can appoint whoever the want to the Supreme Court.
I couldn’t resist and honestly I’m happy to see you got the reference. :-)
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