Even Alberto Gonzales is against TFG

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The Supreme Court can and should deny Trump's executive privilege

Opinion by Alberto Gonzales, opinion contributor

Last week, the White House Counsel disclosed that President Biden had ordered the release of White House visitor logs to the select congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at our nation's Capitol complex. As we know, former President Trump has asserted executive privilege to block the release of presidential records in connection with the events of Jan. 6 to the committee. To date, such efforts have been unsuccessful in the lower courts but the final word will come from the Supreme Court.

I believe the former president's continued efforts will ultimately fail.  

The term "executive privilege" does not exist in our constitution. Yet the current debate in the courts is not about the existence of the privilege. The Supreme Court pronounced the privilege in the Watergate era case of the United States v. Nixon, finding that it was an implied or inherent constitutional power necessary for the president to protect internal communications and obtain candid advice from advisors. Nor is the matter under question here solely about whether a former president alone may assert the privilege. Some legal scholars believe the answer is yes.

However, since the privilege is best viewed, in my judgment, as attached to the Executive Office, it is likely that a former president would need the support of the sitting president in order to successfully assert it. However, assuming the former president alone has the power to assert the privilege then we must decide its scope and application.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-can-and-should-deny-trumps-executive-privilege/ar-AAU7Uhu

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1. Whoa!

Who'd thunk we'd be reading something like that from that ass?