{"id":1184473,"date":"2022-01-03T17:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184473"},"modified":"2022-01-03T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:49:44","slug":"trumps-lawyers-ask-supreme-court-to-kill-jan-6-subpoenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-lawyers-ask-supreme-court-to-kill-jan-6-subpoenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Lawyers Ask Supreme Court To Kill Jan. 6 Subpoenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-lawyers-ask-supreme-court-to-kill-jan-6-subpoenas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184473&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Lawyers say Schiff, Kinzinger statements prove investigation is a political attack<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-scaled-e1631890429884.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Trump-2016-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands at his podium during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.  \/  Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 January 3, 2022 5:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Lawyers for former president Donald Trump are pressing the Supreme Court to quash subpoenas from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers say statements in the press from Reps. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) and Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.) prove the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is using the subpoenas to punish Trump politically, which the Supreme Court has forbidden. The committee is seeking documents and communications from the waning days of Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff and Kinzinger have said they want the committee to expose alleged abuses to the voters and hold wrongdoers accountable. Trump\u2019s lawyers say that\u2019s the kind of fishing expedition the Supreme Court rejected in the Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/house-blunders-to-blame-for-setback-in-trump-subpoena-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aborted attempt<\/a> to subpoena Trump\u2019s tax records.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and a handful of House Republicans believe Trump himself was a prime cause of the riot, and they hope to definitively establish his complicity in the day\u2019s events. Committee members have grown bullish in recent days, saying they\u2019ve uncovered evidence the ex-president twice rejected his daughter Ivanka&#8217;s pleas to intervene. But the showdown at the High Court is exposing the limits of the committee\u2019s investigatory power, and they\u2019ve yet to pursue top players like former vice president Mike Pence or Trump\u2019s congressional allies.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoenas are a threat to all future presidents, Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/550785189\/Trump-v-Thompson-emergency-application\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emergency appeal<\/a> to the justices warns. The president and his aides can\u2019t work effectively if they know a future rival could rifle through their records to damage them politically, they argue. President Joe Biden has blessed the committee\u2019s effort, heightening the stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/supreme-court-gives-manhattan-prosecutor-access-to-trump-financial-records-but-rebuffs-house-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned back<\/a> the House\u2019s two-year effort to obtain Trump&#8217;s financial records by subpoena in 2020. Though it left open a path for Democrats to follow, a seven-justice majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts held that Democrats had to connect their subpoenas to a legitimate lawmaking objective. They needed to show, for example, that Trump\u2019s tax records could help them draft a piece of legislation. Congressional committees can\u2019t &#8220;expose for the sake of exposure,&#8221; the Court said, nor can they act like a law enforcement body and use subpoenas to try someone for wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers say the Jan. 6 committee is violating those commands, and they broadly emphasized that the subpoenas aren\u2019t related to any legislative business.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff told a late night show that the panel means to craft a narrative about the day itself and the events leading up to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All [the committee] can do is expose all the malefactors, follow the evidence, wherever it leads, tell the American people the story of what went into January 6th, all the planning that went into it, who was behind it in terms of the money,&#8221; Schiff said on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mPvKNFC615o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a><\/em>. Schiff appeared on the program to promote his book on democracy and the Trump era. The High Court\u2019s decision in the Trump tax case also warned lawmakers that &#8220;investigations conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators&#8221; are never permitted.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers highlighted Schiff\u2019s statement in their emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, saying it demonstrates the subpoenas were issued in service of a political goal, not a lawmaking one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress has no \u2018general power to inquire into private affairs and compel disclosures,\u2019 and \u2018there is no congressional power to expose for the sake of exposure,\u2019&#8221; their appeal reads, quoting from the Court\u2019s decision in <em>Trump <\/em>v. <em>Mazars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s two Republican members have raised the possibility that Trump committed crimes related to the Capitol riot. Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) suggested at a December hearing that Trump violated a federal law forbidding obstruction of congressional proceedings. Kinzinger hasn\u2019t gone quite as far, but he said the committee was investigating the possibility in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/19\/politics\/adam-kinzinger-trump-investigation-insurrection-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December interview<\/a> on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to go there yet to say, \u2018Do I believe he has [committed a crime],&#8217; I think that&#8217;s obviously a pretty big thing to say. We want to know though,&#8221; Kinzinger said.<\/p>\n<p>Those statements, and others, Trump\u2019s lawyers say, are ample proof that the committee is repeating the House\u2019s mistakes in the tax return cases.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[The committee] has not identified a clear legislative purpose in the present effort,&#8221; Trump\u2019s appeal reads. &#8220;Instead, the additional material it seeks to uncover seems focused on political exposure, not towards addressing security flaws that are easily uncovered through documents and testimony from security officers and experts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Letter was general counsel for House Democrats in the <em>Mazars<\/em> case, and he is again leading the Democratic effort to obtain Jan. 6 documents.<\/p>\n<p>The subpoenas were issued for Trump\u2019s schedule, phone records, briefing materials, legal documents, and communications. Campaign materials such as polling data are also included in the request.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers say executive privilege covers many of the requested documents. For example, privilege typically applies to communiqu\u00e9s between the president and his aides.<\/p>\n<p>A decision from the High Court on Trump\u2019s request is expected before the end of the month. The case is No. 21A272 <em>Trump<\/em> v. <em>Thompson<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts Lawyers say Schiff, Kinzinger statements prove investigation is a political attack  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stands at his podium during the Presidential Debate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}