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my goodness. What is Trumpy hiding now!!
JUST IN: Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit in DC District Court against the House January 6 Committee and the National Archives, as he seeks to keep secret records from his presidency by claiming executive privilege.
via/ @kpolantz
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spanone
(135,829 posts)rsdsharp
(9,170 posts)His Russian money laundering goes back decades.
elleng
(130,876 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)Lovie777
(12,257 posts)that's basically all he does while not paying people and spewing lies and hatred.
malaise
(268,962 posts)Would you shut up Man! Just go afuckingway
joetheman
(1,450 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,598 posts)And just access the database himself, then release the files to the committee and the press simultaneously.
Let SCOTUS try and stop him.
Walleye
(31,017 posts)Shermann
(7,413 posts)We'll see if Trump still loves WikiLeaks after that.
onethatcares
(16,167 posts)can claim executive privilege.
Works for me..
Fiendish Thingy
(15,598 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,144 posts)The absurdities roll on.
sop
(10,167 posts)FalloutShelter
(11,855 posts)Dollar from him. He will keep delaying.
I would like to see the bar assn. outlaw taking his dollar.
Of course, I jest.
erronis
(15,241 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Sadly we don't, we have to just wait.
and wait,
and f'in wait...
Don't know about all of you but I am tired of waiting. Very tired indeed.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,860 posts)budkin
(6,701 posts)Ending with SCOTUS.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,152 posts)At least this firm is not in a strip mall in New Jersey.. I have never seen parliamentarian being listed a legal specialty
I am not impressed with this lawsuit. TFG is not POTUS and the Presidential Records Act is not unconstitutional simply because TFG does not like it
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
mobeau69
(11,143 posts)Too much piss poor writing these days.
ashredux
(2,605 posts)Who are the lawyers he would work with Trump today?
They cannot be the top tier, really good, actually know what theyre doing, attorneys
He never pays his bills!!
lastlib
(23,222 posts)Won't they be surprised--when he never pays them? heehee
Kid Berwyn
(14,897 posts)Hoping to reset Congress in 2022, he wastes our time, again.
Dimmented Donnie really is going to get locked up.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I don't think he has standing to sue over a claim of executive privilege, which he ain't got no more anyway.
onenote
(42,700 posts)Nixon v. GSA:
"it is argued, such claims may be asserted only by incumbents who are presently responsible to the American people for their action. We reject the argument that only an incumbent President may assert such claims, and hold that appellant, as a former President, may also be heard to assert them."
The Court went on to say:"we think that the Solicitor General states the sounder view, and we adopt it:
"This Court held in United States v. Nixon . . . that the privilege is necessary to provide the confidentiality required for the President's conduct of office. Unless he can give his advisers some assurance of confidentiality, a President could not expect to receive the full and frank submissions of facts and opinions upon which effective discharge of his duties depends. The confidentiality necessary to this exchange cannot be measured by the few months or years between the submission of the information and the end of the President's tenure; the privilege is not for the benefit of the President as an individual, but for the benefit of the Republic. Therefore the privilege survives the individual President's tenure."
Ultimately, as that case makes clear, where the incumbent president disagrees with the former president, the incumbent's views as to whether the privilege is appropriate are entitled to great weight. But it simply is wrong -- clearly -- to say that Trump cannot assert executive privilege. The courts may (and should) reject that claim, but not on the grounds that he has no standing to make it.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)mtngirl47
(988 posts)He wants to run out the clock because he hopes the republicans will take over the House in 2022
WestMichRad
(1,320 posts)Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)Tatertot
(94 posts)Has already unanimously ruled that executive privilege cannot be used to shield an illegal act in a criminal trial. United States v Nixon 1974. Seems like a small stretch to have it cover a congressional inquiry into criminal acts
bluestarone
(16,925 posts)Just to keep TFG from EXPLODING?
Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Since he can... which I don't understand how he is even able to do this. These are not his documents. He is no longer President how is he even allowed to claim EP? No matter this will take a year or more and by then since the Dems cant seem to pass anything as the majority they will lose the house with no voting rights legislation passed. The GOP will take back the house in midterms and this committee will be ended.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)dchill
(38,474 posts)Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)It really is as simple as that.
His pleading amounts to "I don't want these papers released to Congress". To which any decent judge would say, "Tough noogies".
onenote
(42,700 posts)Nixon v. GSA:
"it is argued, such claims may be asserted only by incumbents who are presently responsible to the American people for their action. We reject the argument that only an incumbent President may assert such claims, and hold that appellant, as a former President, may also be heard to assert them."
The Court went on to say:"we think that the Solicitor General states the sounder view, and we adopt it:
"This Court held in United States v. Nixon . . . that the privilege is necessary to provide the confidentiality required for the President's conduct of office. Unless he can give his advisers some assurance of confidentiality, a President could not expect to receive the full and frank submissions of facts and opinions upon which effective discharge of his duties depends. The confidentiality necessary to this exchange cannot be measured by the few months or years between the submission of the information and the end of the President's tenure; the privilege is not for the benefit of the President as an individual, but for the benefit of the Republic. Therefore the privilege survives the individual President's tenure."
Ultimately, as that case makes clear, where the incumbent president disagrees with the former president, the incumbent's views as to whether the privilege is appropriate are entitled to great weight. But it simply is wrong -- clearly -- to say that Trump cannot assert executive privilege. The courts may (and should) reject that claim, but not on the grounds that he has no standing to make it.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,943 posts)Not this time orange blob.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,152 posts)rickford66
(5,523 posts)onenote
(42,700 posts)kentuck
(111,085 posts)Or that his claim of "executive privilege" would outrank the present Commander-in-Chief in the White House?
How tough would that be?
onenote
(42,700 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)Keep filing lawsuits to throw sand in the face of his "enemies" and to delay any accountability until the other side gives up or the issue becomes moot.