Posted on 02/22/2022 10:08:48 AM PST by Coronal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday brought a formal end to former President Donald Trump's request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year's deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
The court's decision to formally reject Trump's appeal follows its Jan. 19 order that led to the documents being handed over to the House of Representatives investigative committee by the federal agency that stores government and historical records.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Dec. 9 upheld a lower court ruling that Trump had no basis to challenge President Joe Biden's decision to allow the records to be handed over to the House of Representatives select committee. Trump then appealed to the Supreme Court
Trump and his allies have waged an ongoing legal battle with the House select committee seeking to block access to documents and witnesses. Trump has sought to invoke a legal principle known as executive privilege, which protects the confidentially of some internal White House communications, a stance rejected by lower courts.
The House committee has said it needed the records to understand any role Trump may have played in fomenting the violence that unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. His supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed bid to prevent Congress from formally certifying Biden's 2020 presidential election victory over Trump.
The committee asked the National Archives to produce visitor logs, phone records and written communications between his advisers.
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Thank god it’s a conservative court!
The ENTIRE government is DEEPSTATE now.
The article provides no information not in the headline and basically is forming a narrative instead of being informative.
No surprise it is the LSM
America is gone. Just a memory. There is no way back.
It’s (D)ifferent.
Now?
It always has been.
The only thing government protects is itself............
Wow, so much bullshit in the very first sentence.
Take heart. This means that if executive privledge is gone, Biden’s records can be examined. Getting bit in the ass eh Joey?
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Then please be gone. We don’t need you effing surrender Monkeys bringing our side down anymore.
Funny that Executive privilege has almost universally always been upheld and the litigation of this type normally takes years. But Trump has no rights, no privileged communications and no standing in the courts. If they can take Trump’s rights they can, and will, take yours. But the time to fight this has long passed, so enjoy you’re well deserved servitude. Not that I am excluding myself, I’m as guilty as any of you.
IT won’t happen to him. For HE will contest it SCOTUS will side with him
Hope the Supreme Court realizes what they unleashed when we take Congress in 2022. All records from Biden will be on the table.
“deadly attack”, “mob”....no prejudice here.
As a matter of principle, when President Trump is reelected, he should ask some of the feistier Republican congressional chairmen to at their convenience, subpoena a BUNCH of records about Democrats that would fall under this decision, that would otherwise be unthinkable to subpoena.
This would both be payback to the Dems, and a wrist slap to the SCOTUS, if they refuse. And if the SCOTUS refuses, the senate and house judiciary committees should both vote to *strip* this authority from the federal courts.
This would put sharp teeth in it: “Arbitrate fairly or lose your authority to arbitrate!”
All you do is whine and cry and ask why isn’t everyone else doing something. Go to hell I’m sick and tired of you whiney little whelps. I’ve done my time, I’ve taken the oath so when the time comes I will be manning a post. You’ll be whining in mommy’s basement. F O
i hope the precedent will be set for when the republicans ask nancy and chucky for their records.
Exactly. Sounds like the Surrender Monkeys and Despair Trolls are making a comeback.
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