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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whatever happens Supreme Court will rollover for DT. 
Justice Roberts are you ready???[/quote]

It will never get there.  They are going by the book.  [/quote]

Trump will litigate the issue of his right to assert “executive privilege” for as long as he can. [/quote]

It is settled law, it’s not going anywhere.  You can’t exercise executive privilege if you’re no longer the executive.  He is trying to claim that he was entitled to move the documents to FL while he was still POTUS, and that may be true. He wasn’t allowed to KEEP them. There is not a single coherent legal theory I’ve seen anywhere about that. .[/quote]

It is far from “well-settled.” US v. Nixon involved a balancing of competing interests utilized prior to enactment of the PRA. That is why the statute sets forth the specified criteria by which the executive branch of axsitting administration can obtain access under certain enumerated circumstances to records of a prior administration for which there is a claim of privilege and why Congress vested the district court in DC with jurisdiction to adjudicate any resulting disputes. This doesn’t mean that Trump has an argument that will carry the day, it just means he has at least a colorable right to assert a claim of privilege that can be overruled by the current exrcutive (the Archivist in this instance). [/quote]

None of that lets him keep the documents. Saying they are privileged just means the archivist guards access to them. They still belong to the Archives. [/quote]

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