Judges Suggest Trump's Executive Privilege Claim May Upset WH's Relationship With Congress
Three federal appellate judges seemed skeptical of allowing former President Donald Trump to invoke executive privilege in the investigation by the January 6 committee, suggesting this week that granting such power could disrupt the relationship between a sitting president and Congress.
"We only have one president at a time under our Constitution," Patricia Millett, one of the three judges on the panel, said on Tuesday. "That incumbent president... has made the judgment and is best positioned, as the Supreme Court has told us, to make that call as to the interests of the executive branch."
"This all boils down to who decides," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson added. "Who decides when it is in the best interest of the United States to disclose presidential records? Is it the current occupant of the White House or the former?"
Trump's attorneys argued in front of the D.C. Circuit panel for three hours on Tuesday morning as they attempted to prove that the former president should be permitted to keep conversations and records of his administration confidential from Congressional investigators probing the January 6 Capitol attack.
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