{"id":1213610,"date":"2022-01-13T09:34:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213610"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:34:38","slug":"america-first-legal-files-scotus-brief-backing-trumps-fight-against-january-6-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/america-first-legal-files-scotus-brief-backing-trumps-fight-against-january-6-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"America First Legal Files SCOTUS Brief Backing Trump\u2019s Fight Against January 6 Committee"},"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\">26<\/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%2Famerica-first-legal-files-scotus-brief-backing-trumps-fight-against-january-6-committee%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=1213610&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1197359237-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The conservative group America First Legal (AFL) submitted an <i>amicus<\/i> brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in support of former President Donald Trump\u2019s case against the January 6 select committee.<\/p>\n<p>AFL, founded by former Trump senior adviser Stephen Miller, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aflegal.org\/news\/afl-files-amicus-brief-in-support-of-president-trump-in-case-against-the-politicized-january-6th-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asking<\/a> the High Court to \u201crein in\u201d the committee and \u201cprotect the separation of powers and the rule of law,\u201d according to a press release from the group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?filename=\/docket\/docketfiles\/html\/public\/21-932.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a> a petition with the Supreme Court at the end of December after a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the January 6 committee, which had sought hundreds of pages of Trump\u2019s communications and other documents the committee claimed were relevant to last year\u2019s riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The former president is seeking to block the January 6 committee\u2019s expansive demand, while also asking the Supreme Court to consider the arguments that his communications are protected by executive privilege and that the committee\u2019s demand serves no \u201cvalid legislative purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the federal court ruling,&nbsp;President Joe Biden in October twice refused to honor Trump\u2019s claim of executive privilege.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gene Hamilton, AFL vice president and general counsel, said in a statement about his group\u2019s&nbsp;<em>amicus<\/em> brief that the Biden administration and congressional Democrats \u201care charting a path that ends in the destruction of executive privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW \u2192 We filed a brief at the Supreme Court of the United States in support of former President Donald J. Trump. Our brief asks the Court to reign in the January 6th Committee, and to protect the separation of powers and the rule of law. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PoHLCF23Tl\">https:\/\/t.co\/PoHLCF23Tl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 America First Legal (@America1stLegal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/America1stLegal\/status\/1481118990080659456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hamilton stated,&nbsp;\u201cThe Biden Administration and its allies in Congress, who apparently have no appreciation for the past and no anticipation of the future, are charting a path that ends in the destruction of executive privilege. Their haste will surely erode the effect of those checks and balances to the detriment of Americans everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Among its several points in the brief, AFL charged that Biden and his \u201callies in Congress\u201d \u201cpounced on \u2018interbranch accommodation\u2019 to circumvent constitutional limits, and to disclose former President Trump\u2019s records.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It also contended that the committee does not have the authority to solicit presidential records and that it was neither established nor is operating in line with House rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The committee, created by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and comprising nine of her handpicked colleagues, has targeted dozens of Trump\u2019s allies with subpoenas and other demands for records as it <a href=\"https:\/\/january6th.house.gov\/about\">investigates<\/a> the \u201cfacts, circumstances, and causes\u201d of the January 6 breach.<\/p>\n<p>The committee members have been openly vocal about their disapproval of Trump, and all of them voted in favor of impeaching the former president last January for \u201cinciting an insurrection.\u201d The members have, however, stopped short of deeming Trump guilty of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>One member, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), was asked in December by CNN if he thought Trump should be convicted of criminal charges. Kinzinger declined to answer the question directly but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2021\/12\/19\/kinzinger-on-1-6.cnn\">said<\/a>, \u201cNobody is above the law. And if the president knowingly allowed what happened on January 6 to happen and in fact was giddy about it and that violates a criminal statute, he needs to be held accountable for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative group America First Legal (AFL) submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in support of former President Donald Trump\u2019s case against the January 6 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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-1213610","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\/1213610","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213610\/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=1213610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}