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Jan. 6 panel urges Supreme Court to deny Trump bid to shield records
The Hill ^ | 12/30/21 02:49 PM EST | BY JOHN KRUZEL -

Posted on 12/30/2021 11:56:51 AM PST by RandFan

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has asked the Supreme Court to turn away former President Trump's effort to block the release of his administration's records.

Lawyers for the House select committee in a court brief on Thursday pushed back against Trump's claim of executive privilege over a trove of records that congressional investigators say are needed for their probe into the deadly riot.

“The Select Committee’s work is of the highest importance and urgency: investigating one of the darkest episodes in our nation’s history, a deadly assault on the United States Capitol and Congress, and an unprecedented disruption of the peaceful transfer of power from one President to the next,” they wrote.

“The investigation is indispensable to the Select Committee’s ability to propose remedial measures to ensure the peaceful transfer of power and prevent future attacks on our democratic institutions.”


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: capitol; trump
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1 posted on 12/30/2021 11:56:51 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Pls scotus, let us continue our fishing expedition.


2 posted on 12/30/2021 11:57:54 AM PST by skeeter
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To: skeeter

I’m sure Robert’s et al will be more than happy to comply


3 posted on 12/30/2021 12:03:02 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: RandFan

How about panel members be required to show what is requested by the People.


4 posted on 12/30/2021 12:04:02 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them )
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Roberts and Kavanaugh have in the past ruled against Trump.


5 posted on 12/30/2021 12:05:24 PM PST by TakebackGOP
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To: RandFan

How about those on the panel? Let’s see phone, email and financial records. Likely to be more incrimminating than Trump’s.


6 posted on 12/30/2021 12:05:37 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: RandFan

These people hate this GREAT country.

VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!

Vote,them out.


7 posted on 12/30/2021 12:07:12 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: RandFan

Oooh but never mind that the Epstein’s black book records have been ordered sealed! Double standards are going to lead us to another civil war! But this time the subhuman slave narrative by the evil POS RATS are the conservatives and fairness!


8 posted on 12/30/2021 12:09:39 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: RandFan

Malta will decide .... and let Epstein-Roberts know.


9 posted on 12/30/2021 12:12:07 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: RandFan

Do away with rule by consensus put the thumb on Byrd et’al and let’s find out what actually transpired in the dc swamp machine to facilitate such a fake event that shielded the STEAL


10 posted on 12/30/2021 12:12:22 PM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count..)
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To: RandFan

Of course they do.


11 posted on 12/30/2021 12:12:31 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: RandFan

House Panel: Blah blah blah.

SCOTUS: Sorry, we don’t speak kangaroo.


12 posted on 12/30/2021 12:13:09 PM PST by sevlex
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To: RandFan

Now they’re advising SCOTUS. 🙄


13 posted on 12/30/2021 12:13:23 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RandFan

So much for lady justice being blindfolded. The supremes being lobbied by the crooks after President Trump.


14 posted on 12/30/2021 12:20:50 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: RandFan

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15 posted on 12/30/2021 12:21:01 PM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: RandFan

IF they succeed in breaking Executive Privilege against Trump-—what is to prevent similar actions against Biden-—Obama-—Clinton-—LBJ-—JFK-— Executive Privilege is connected to the OFFICE——AND the PERSON.

This would open ALL of prior & FUTURE Presidents into a spotlight none of the Dems wish to see....


16 posted on 12/30/2021 12:25:22 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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““The Select Committee’s work is of the highest importance and urgency: investigating one of the darkest episodes in our nation’s history”

So now, just to get Trump, they’re minimizing slavery.


17 posted on 12/30/2021 12:25:50 PM PST by fredmann
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To: TakebackGOP
Frat boys have to stick together.

Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett pictured deliberating Trump's fate:


18 posted on 12/30/2021 12:26:14 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: RandFan

What about HW’s, Bubba’s, Dubya’s, Odungo’s????? I wanna see theirs if President Trump is forced to give his up!!!


19 posted on 12/30/2021 12:26:27 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: RandFan

There was an article in our local paper last night, which said that the White House had intervened and called some of the records wanted by the committee to be “off limits” (due to various reasons). It was made to sound like Biden was doing this to protect national security.

My guess is that the records he is protecting are related to the actual insurrection plans not being made by Trump and his supporters, but by FBI and their operatives.


20 posted on 12/30/2021 12:35:15 PM PST by NEMDF
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