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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:23 AM Jan 2022

The Supreme Court is in session today.

What would prevent them from ruling on the Trump "executive privilege" claim?

If they were truly concerned about our Constitution and our country, they would have done it already.

Many argue that it is a cut and dry case - the defeated former president has no claim to "executive privilege" in this case. He must turn the documents over to the Congress, the Representatives of the people.

The 1/6 Committee requested that they expedite their ruling but there is no reason to believe they will be in any hurry to expose their former Leader?

Today would be the perfect day to send it back to the lower court.

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The Supreme Court is in session today. (Original Post) kentuck Jan 2022 OP
C-Span is covering it. Now they are talking about mask mandates. Emile Jan 2022 #1
Sotomayor is kicking ass! Emile Jan 2022 #2
Watching now karin_sj Jan 2022 #5
That would be fabulous malaise Jan 2022 #3
Taxpayers paid his salary to run our government bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #4

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)
4. Taxpayers paid his salary to run our government
Fri Jan 7, 2022, 11:36 AM
Jan 2022

The government owns his papers. The only executive privilege I could fathom would be material unrelated to that occupation - corporate papers with copyrights or proprietary information unrelated to political office, or political information such as GOP voter rolls, methods, strategy - none of which has any business in the executive branch.

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