Biden administration defends its decision not to assert executive privilege over Trump's White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Both the House of Representatives and the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny former President Donald Trump's attempt to keep secret more than 700 pages of records that pertain to January 6.

The House select committee argues that it desperately needs the papers for its sprawling probe into the deadly insurrection, and that Trump hasn't shown how he would be harmed enough to keep the records from being released. And the Biden administration is defending its decision that White House records from January 6 shouldn't be protected by executive privilege. Trump has disagreed, and his insistence on secrecy prompted him to sue in October.

The case, a major one on presidential authority and executive privilege as well House investigations, raises unsettled questions about the power of a former president to control information from his White House, even when the current administration and Congress support transparency for the records.

"Allowing a former President to override the decisions of an incumbent President would be an extraordinary intrusion into the latter's ability to discharge his constitutional responsibilities," lawyers from the Justice Department wrote in the filing on Thursday. They represent the National Archives, which currently possesses the Trump-era White House documents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-administration-defends-its-decision-not-to-assert-executive-privilege-over-trump-s-white-house-records/ar-AASi1hE

Jan. 6 Panel Tells SCOTUS It Has Jurisdiction to Seek Trump Documents From Archives

The panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol is arguing that it has jurisdiction to seek archived documents from former President Donald Trump's administration that may provide more insight into the riot.

The House committee is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow an appeals court's earlier ruling, which said that the National Archives should give them access to the documents, to stay in place.

Trump's lawyers have sued to block the National Archives from turning over the documents, claiming that the select committee has "no legitimate legislative purpose" for seeking access to them. They also claimed that providing those documents would damage for future presidents the power of executive privilege, which the former president invoked to keep the documents out of the committee's hands.

Trump's lawyers asked the high court last week to hear arguments on his executive privilege claim aimed at keeping the documents within the archives. But lawyers for the Jan. 6 panel argued against his request in a court filing Thursday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-panel-tells-scotus-it-has-jurisdiction-to-seek-trump-documents-from-archives/ar-AASi0WN

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Not one word, not one fckn word

[malaise]

2. They won't take the case

Take that to the bank

[ShazzieB]

3. I agree.

I said exactly this a week ago and I still stand by it!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2844554

[monkeyman1]

4. Scotus know's there sitting on a political bomb !!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. But they are holding back some documents for "National Security" reasons,

and others for "Executive Privilege." Personally, I think that if everything can't be open and published, well, too bad. I long ago concluded that those in charge of classifying things, would classify the location of your asshole if they could, making certain basic functions impossible.

So my opinion is, Nope. Publish everything.