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Supreme Court Reject Trump’s Request to Withhold Documents From Jan. 6 Committee

streetwisepol January 20, 2022 Congress, Democrats, Donald Trump, Jan. 6 committee, Politics, Trump, US, US News Comments Off on Supreme Court Reject Trump’s Request to Withhold Documents From Jan. 6 Committee
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to block documents and records from his administration to the Jan. 6 House Committee. The ruling comes after Trump last month asked the Supreme Court to block the documents’ release, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected his argument of executive privilege, but granted his request to temporarily halt the National Archives from releasing the documents, pending judicial review. “Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court’s decision,” the court wrote in the 8–1 ruling (pdf). Justice Clarence Thomas would have granted Trump’s request. He did not expand on the reasons for his dissent. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that while he sided with the majority, he disagreed with a portion of the lower appeals …

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