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Trump has suffered a severe legal and personal setback as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision. The Supreme Court’s failure to stop the publication of Trump White House records to a House committee on January 6 constitutes a major setback for the ex-desperate President’s attempt to hide up his 2021 coup attempt.
The committee will be able to go even deeper inside Trump’s West Wing and understand what’s going on before or during his mob’s attack on the US Capitol after the major blow on Wednesday, which was yet another instance of the courts rebuking Donald Trump’s efforts to use them for his own political gain. It will also be perceived as a betrayal by the court’s conservative majority, which he solidified with three candidates for the top bench whom he saw as a legal insurance policy as he’s repeatedly attempted to bend governing institutions to evade accountability.
Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, hailed the ruling as a “win for the rule of law and American democracy” and pledged to unearth all the facts regarding the January 6 violence and its roots.
Trump had made a concerted effort to avoid such scrutiny and had already lost cases in district and appellate courts as part of a broader campaign of obstruction of the committee, which included expansive executive privilege claims by ex-aides – including some, like populist political guru Steve Bannon, who were not serving as White House officials at the time of the insurgency.
The case came together Vice President Joe Biden refused to back Trump’s bid to block the release of the materials, stating that the attack on the Capitol was such an insult to the Constitution that it needed to be investigated. The Supreme Court did not decide on the important legal question of what happens when a current and past president disagree on the scope of executive privilege – a notion intended to ensure that counsel to a commander in chief from subordinates remains confidential. However, it upheld an appeals court judgment that concluded Trump had not proven that his concerns about executive branch secrecy outweighed the “deep interests in disclosure” identified by Biden.
