Posted on 12/10/2021 8:17:50 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
On Wednesday, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and all nine members of the U.S. House Select Committee claiming they are exceeding their constitutional authority.
Meadows’ attorney sent a letter to committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson saying his client would no longer cooperate with the committee’s investigation to have “no intention of respecting the boundaries concerning Executive Privilege” and the “wide ranging” subpoena of his phone records would include “intensely personal” and potentially “privileged” communications.
According to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, “Executive privilege is the power of the president and other officials in the executive branch to withhold certain forms of confidential communication from the courts and the legislative branch.”
Letter from Thompson to Mark Meadows’ attorney:
“The Select Committee is left with no choice but advance contempt proceedings and recommend the body in which Mr. Meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution” pic.twitter.com/ahiwtgTaub — Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) December 8, 2021
Meadows’ lawsuit, filed in the federal district court, the same day as Thompson’s letter, states the subpoenas directed at the former chief of staff and Verizon are “overly broad and unduly burdensome.”
“While the Committee and Mr. Meadows engaged over a period of time in an effort to achieve such reasonable accommodation, the Select Committee adamantly refused to recognize the immunity of present and former senior White House aides from being compelled to appear before Congress and likewise refused to recognize a former president’s claims of Executive Privilege and instructions to Mr. Meadows to maintain such privilege claims in addressing the Select Committee’s inquiries.”
The complaint further states that President Joe Biden purportedly has waived former Trump’s claims of executive privilege and immunity.
As a sidebar, how Biden can waive Trump’s right to executive privilege is odd.
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I hope he’s got something good because it sounds like they are going to drop a bomb on him.
Good. Let Pelosi have her teat caught in the wringer for a change.
I wish they wouldn’t use the term “executive privilege.” It sounds so uppity.
The correct term IMO would be “separation of powers” as defined by the Constitution.
IF Pelosi can stop trump’s Executive Privilege-—
The it can also apply to OBAMA-—CLINTON-—CARTER-—LBJ-—JFK-—TRUMAN, etc.
Democrats better think again...
EXCELLENT POINT AND IT SHOULD BE USED IN THAT WAY!
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