Trump Pleads For SCOTUS To Halt The Jan. 6 Committee’s ‘Criminal’ Investigation – By Josh Kovensky (Talking Points Memo) / December 30, 2021
The Jan. 6 Committee wants to lock Trump up, the former President believes.
The Jan. 6 Committee cautioned the Supreme Court in a Thursday filing that allowing former President Trump to block access to White House records would amount to the court extending monarchical power to a former executive.
“Accepting Petitioner’s arguments would result in a remarkable expansion of a former President’s interests—at the expense of the incumbent President’s Article II authority—contravening not only GSA, but also the Constitution,” the panel wrote. “The Constitution’s text and structure reflect the Founders’ rejection of monarchy and perpetual power.”
Trump, the committee noted, seemed to verge on suggesting that he, in some ways, remains president by arguing that he can claim executive privilege over the Jan. 6 records sought by the Committee.
“His unsupported claim that disclosure will cause irreparable harm to the Executive Branch is belied by the determination of the President—the person best suited to make that determination—that it will not,” the panel wrote, referring to President Biden’s decision not to claim privilege over some documents sought by the committee.
