the Supreme Court puts former President on notice his privilege is bogus

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the Supreme Court puts former President on notice his privilege is bogus

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My apologies to Dr. Seuss for the headline.

8-1, with Clarence Thomas wandering off on his own.
New York Times wrote:WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused a request from former President Donald J. Trump to block the release of White House records concerning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, effectively rejecting Mr. Trump’s claim of executive privilege and clearing the way for the House committee investigating the riot to receive the documents hours later.

The court, with only Justice Clarence Thomas noting a dissent, let stand an appeals court ruling that Mr. Trump’s desire to maintain the confidentiality of internal White House communications was outweighed by the need for a full accounting of the attack and the disruption of the certification of the 2020 electoral count.

In an unsigned order, the majority wrote that Mr. Trump’s request for a stay while the case moved forward presented weighty issues, including “whether and in what circumstances a former president may obtain a court order preventing disclosure of privileged records from his tenure in office, in the face of a determination by the incumbent president to waive the privilege.”

But an appeals court’s ruling against Mr. Trump did not turn on those questions, the order said.

“Because the court of appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former president necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” the order said.

Within hours of the decision, the National Archives turned over hundreds of pages of documents to the committee.
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns. Actually this particular wheel took 3 months and a day. The courts reviewed the President's claim of Executive Privilege in a manner befitting the urgency of the issue.
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Re: the Supreme Court puts former President on notice his privilege is bogus

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Most of the legal moves Trump makes don't seem to be actual defenses as much as stall tactics.

Of course, he is an imbecile, so it's possible he thinks his lawyers are making smart legal moves on his behalf.
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