{"id":993379,"date":"2021-11-10T08:58:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=993379"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T14:05:56","slug":"judge-rejects-trumps-bid-to-shield-records-from-congressional-probe-of-us-capitol-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rejects-trumps-bid-to-shield-records-from-congressional-probe-of-us-capitol-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rejects Trump\u2019s Bid to Shield Records From Congressional Probe of US Capitol Breach"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjudge-rejects-trumps-bid-to-shield-records-from-congressional-probe-of-us-capitol-breach%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=993379&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--><p>A federal judge late Tuesday rejected an attempt by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to shield records from his time in office from a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-sues-house-jan-6-committee-national-archives_4055692.html\">argued<\/a> that a request for documents sent to the U.S. archivist was \u201cillegal, unfounded, and overbroad\u201d and lacked a legitimate legislative purpose. They asked the court to declare the request invalid and block it.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-bennie-thompson\">Bennie Thompson<\/a> (D-Miss.), the chairman of the panel, and other members on the committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21101510-congress-response-to-trump-suit\">asserted<\/a> the request for documents was within its jurisdiction and had a clear legislative purpose: \u201cto understand the facts and causes surrounding the January 6 attack to develop legislation and other measures that will protect our nation from a similar assault in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama nominee, sided with the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason is that President Joe Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/psaki-biden-waives-executive-privilege-on-jan-6-documents_4039875.html\">decided not to assert executive privilege<\/a> over the requested records,\u00a0including written communications and calendar entries related to Trump\u2019s speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, Chutkan said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21101508-chutkan-ruling-on-trump-suit\">her ruling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefendants acknowledge that executive privilege may extend beyond a president\u2019s tenure in office, but they emphasize that the privilege exists to protect the executive branch, not an individual. Therefore, they argue, the incumbent president\u2014not a former president\u2014is best positioned to evaluate the long-term interests of the executive branch and to balance the benefits of disclosure against any effect on the ability of future executive branch advisors to provide full and frank advice. The court agrees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4096795\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bennie-thompson-1200x801-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4096795\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bennie-thompson-1200x801-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach, is seen during a panel meeting in Washington on Oct. 19, 2021.)<\/figure>\n<p>While presidential conversations are presumptively privileged, the privilege is not absolute and the presumption can be overcome \u201cby an appropriate showing of public need by the judicial or legislative branch,\u201d Chutkan said.<\/p>\n<p>With the decision, the House panel is set to receive records from Trump\u2019s time in office on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson in a statement praised the \u201cswift and decisive ruling\u00a0on the former president\u2019s lawsuit, which I consider little more than an attempt to delay and obstruct our investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view, there couldn\u2019t be a more compelling public interest than getting answers about an attack on our democracy,\u201d he said, adding that the panel\u2019s probe \u201cis moving forward swiftly and we look forward to receiving these important records from the National Archives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Budowich, director of communications for Trump, said that \u201cthe battle to defend executive privilege\u201d was destined from the outset to be decided by appellate, or higher, courts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump remains committed to defending the Constitution and the office of the presidency, &amp; will be seeing this process through,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/WEB_ZacharyStieber-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Stieber\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Zachary Stieber<\/p>\n<p>Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zachary Stieber covers U.S. news, including politics and court cases. He started at The Epoch Times as a New York City metro reporter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"more_posts\">\n<p>More articles from this author<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge late Tuesday rejected an attempt by former President Donald Trump to shield records from his time in office from a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 breach &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-993379","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\/993379","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993379\/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=993379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}