Supreme Court Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump's executive privilege claims

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold records from the House of Representatives related to the January 6 US Capitol attack based on executive privilege -- a claim rejected by President Joe Biden -- would present the US Supreme Court with a novel legal dilemma.

But past decisions involving assertions of executive privilege to keep documents confidential suggest Trump has a weak case, even if heard by this increasingly conservative high court, with three Trump appointees on the nine-member bench.

"The privilege is not for the benefit of the President as an individual, but for the benefit of the Republic," the Supreme Court declared in a 1977 touchstone decision involving former President Richard Nixon.

More recently, the justices last year expressed concerns that congressional demands for presidential documents could arise from "impermissible purposes," such as to harass a president, and interfere with his official duties. In this new case, however, any possible distraction from duties dissolves because Trump no longer holds office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-watergate-era-rulings-against-nixon-may-end-trump-s-executive-privilege-claims/ar-AAQzHi2

[leftieNanner]

1. There was no danger of interfering

with his "official" duties when he was IN office.

Because he did zero work.

It was ALL Executive Time.

[Walleye]

3. Funny that Joe goes to Delaware for the weekend yet gets into the office Monday morning earlier

then TFG ever did when he was living upstairs

[Walleye]

2. He can't cooperate because it would distract him, from trying to overturn the election

He thinks that’s his official duty now. Oh and Nixon was still president, TFG it’s just an obnoxious private citizen

[LiberalFighter]

4. And the documents requested have nothing to with presidential duties.

[pfitz59]

5. The wheels of justice are turning too slowly

Throw the bastard in jail already...