First on CNN: Biden White House rejects more executive privilege claims by Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

(CNN)President Joe Biden has once again refused to assert executive privilege over more documents that former President Donald Trump has sought to keep out of the hands of the committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

According to a letter obtained by CNN, White House counsel Dana Remus informed National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday that Biden would not assert privilege over additional materials that Trump requested remain secret as a matter of executive privilege.

The former President has has already filed a lawsuit to stop the National Archives, the custodian of his administration's White House records, from giving documents to Congress that he believes are privileged, and the latest documents will likely become part of that lawsuit. The National Archives is set to begin turning over records to the House on November 12, unless Trump gets a court order.

"President Biden has considered the former President's assertion, and I have engaged in consultations with the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice," Remus wrote.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/politics/executive-privilege-donald-trump-joe-biden/index.html

[Cha]

1. TY Pres Biden/WH!

[Midnight Writer]

2. Good deal. Press is finally giving some attention to this story.

This is like a train that keeps building up momentum as long as you keep giving it fuel, and I think there is plenty of fuel.

[monkeyman1]

3. tell the TFG go pound sand !

[Grins]

4. In 30 days?

“Biden instruct(ed) the National Archives to provide the documents to the committee 30 days...”

To give Trump more time?

What happened to, “…by noon, Friday”?

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Seems a week would be more than sufficient? Will this get delayed in court?

[marble falls]

7. 45 is constitutionaly allowed to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court, like any other ...

... citizen. I would hate for him to evade full justice because we were in hurry to slam dunk him, and allowed to escape any degree of his just desserts.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. You realize if the House gets flipped, it's game over? We don't have the luxury of time IMHO.

[marble falls]

6. Ruh-ro.