T-Rump’s Lawyers Try Again To Stall Release Of Records For Insurrection Committee (UPDATE)

November 11, 2021

UPDATE Below:

As the law reaches for the fat-neck of the T-Rump, his lawyers filed a request this morning for a momentary stay of the order issued on Tuesday to allow T-Rump’s records to be released to the House committee investigating Jan . 6 by tomorrow evening, and no asshole holds about it.
However, T-Rump just wants enough time to have a review of the case by a federal three-judge panel, which he thinks is enough space — asshole!

Judge Tanya Chutkan noted Supreme Court history and cited the unprecedented legal situation: ‘“a former President asserts executive privilege over records for which the sitting President has refused to assert executive privilege … At bottom, this is a dispute between a former and incumbent President,” she wrote in her 39-page opinion. “And the Supreme Court has already made clear that in such circumstances, the incumbent’s view is accorded greater weight.”‘

This morning legal lawlessness:

Bullshit delay tactic — per CBS News this afternoon:

Former President Trump has asked a federal appeals court to delay the transfer of his White House documents to the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack.

In an emergency motion filed Thursday, lawyers for Mr. Trump asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to issue an injunction halting the transfer of the court documents, arguing that further time is needed for litigation and procedural questions.

“President Trump respectfully moves this Court to enter an administrative injunction enjoining release of the privileged documents while the Court considers President Trump’s Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal,” the filing reads.

His filing asserts that the National Archives and House Committee “take no position” on the request for a brief pause in the transfer of the documents, while fuller legal arguments are made before the appeals court.

Mr. Trump’s lawyers, in his original lawsuit against the House select committee, argued that his White House records are entitled to confidentiality and claimed they are protected by executive privilege, that a sitting president’s private communications should be shielded from public scrutiny.

His lawyers called the committee’s subpoena for his records a “vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration.”
They argued, “Our laws do not permit such an impulsive, egregious action against a former President and his close advisors.”

Since Mr. Trump filed his lawsuit, the National Archives said it has identified over 1,500 pages pertinent to the committee’s request: daily presidential diaries, the files of then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, multiple binders belonging to then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and White House talking points alleging voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

And a better clarifier — h/t from the Guardian‘s live blog:

Further clarification:

Despite the T-Rump primeval screams of ‘executive privilege,’ Dick Nixon cleared the way to release everything — from CNN this morning:

The Supreme Court scaffolding for the current dispute dates to 1977, when Nixon, three years removed from office, challenged the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act in his effort to shield Watergate tape recordings and documents.
Chutkan noted in her opinion that Nixon had said he planned to destroy the tapes and that, since the entire Nixon ordeal, Congress had adopted the Presidential Records Act, which changed ownership of a president’s official files from private to public; the House committee is seeking the archived Trump files under the act’s terms.

Nixon lost in 1977 by a 7-2 vote. A threshold question for the justices in that case of Nixon v. Administrator of General Services was whether Nixon, as a former president, could assert executive privilege — a right intended to ensure a president confidentiality in his dealings with advisers and usually given significant protection.
In an earlier case, the 1974 United States v. Nixon, the court had said the privilege is not absolute, as it required Nixon to turn over Watergate tapes for a criminal investigation. (Nixon resigned soon after that decision.)

Although the signs point to a full release of the documents, T-Rump has a nasty knack to wiggle out of shit, and the way history is leaning right now, he could escape again.
I freaking hope not.

Anyway, here we are, once again…

UPDATE

Per The Washington Post late this afternoon:

A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked the imminent release of records of former president Donald Trump’s White House calls and activities related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after a lower court found that President Biden can waive his predecessor’s claim to executive privilege.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted a temporary injunction while it considers Trump’s request to hold off any release pending appeal, and fast-tracked oral arguments for a hearing Nov. 30.

However, judges for the hearing does ease the pain:

Yet, and still — shit…

Image out front is my favorite of the T-Rump mugs, though, ‘favorite‘ does not mean in any form or fashion, as in, ‘my favorite movie,’ or ‘my favorite song.’
It’s more of an anti-appreciation/like.

And aptly titled, ‘Basic Shapes,‘ by caricaturist/illustrator Chong Jit Leong (and found here), it’s an image that displays the elemental form of a purloined sociopath — a bloated profile of flatulent bile and arrogant ignorance.

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