A trial court previously refused to block the House committee investigating the Capitol riot from examining documents from his White House.
WASHINGTON ― Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power by effectively overthrowing the Constitution should remain a secret under that same document’s concept of “executive privilege,” his lawyers are telling a federal appellate court a week after the identical argument was rejected by a trial court judge.
Lawyers Jesse Binnall and Justin Clark warn that if the judges allow the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to have access to Trump’s documents, future presidents will suffer, too.
“It is naïve to assume that the fallout will be limited to President Trump or the events of January 6, 2021. Every Congress will point to some unprecedented thing about ‘this president’ to justify a request for his presidential records,” they wrote in a filing this week to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “In these hyper-partisan times, Congress will increasingly and inevitably use this new weapon to perpetually harass its political rival.”
The Biden White House, the House committee and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan all have accepted as a basic premise that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an extraordinary event that calls for extraordinary measures.
“The documents shed light on events within the White House on and about Jan. 6 and bear on the select committee’s need to understand the facts underlying the most serious attack on the operations of the federal government since the Civil War,” White House counsel Dana Remus wrote in an Oct. 8 letter to the National Archives, approving release of the first batch of documents.
Trump wants Appeals Court to keep his attempt to overthrow democracy a secret? A secret? He pretty much did it all in plain sight - but we need to know the details that he is trying to keep secret. Trump tried to overthrow a presidential election that he lost - and the January 6 assault on the Capitol was an extraordinary event that calls for extraordinary measures. What do you think?
WASHINGTON ― Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in power by effectively overthrowing the Constitution should remain a secret under that same document’s concept of “executive privilege,” his lawyers are telling a federal appellate court a week after the identical argument was rejected by a trial court judge.
Lawyers Jesse Binnall and Justin Clark warn that if the judges allow the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to have access to Trump’s documents, future presidents will suffer, too.
“It is naïve to assume that the fallout will be limited to President Trump or the events of January 6, 2021. Every Congress will point to some unprecedented thing about ‘this president’ to justify a request for his presidential records,” they wrote in a filing this week to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “In these hyper-partisan times, Congress will increasingly and inevitably use this new weapon to perpetually harass its political rival.”
The Biden White House, the House committee and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan all have accepted as a basic premise that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an extraordinary event that calls for extraordinary measures.
“The documents shed light on events within the White House on and about Jan. 6 and bear on the select committee’s need to understand the facts underlying the most serious attack on the operations of the federal government since the Civil War,” White House counsel Dana Remus wrote in an Oct. 8 letter to the National Archives, approving release of the first batch of documents.
Trump Asking Appeals Court To Keep His Attempt To Overthrow Democracy A Secret
Trump wants Appeals Court to keep his attempt to overthrow democracy a secret? A secret? He pretty much did it all in plain sight - but we need to know the details that he is trying to keep secret. Trump tried to overthrow a presidential election that he lost - and the January 6 assault on the Capitol was an extraordinary event that calls for extraordinary measures. What do you think?
These trollboy America haters can’t get over their hard on obsession over trump.
