Trump’s Documents, the Jan. 6 Committee and the Supreme Court
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Trump v. Thompson, denying Donald Trump's motion to block the National Archives from producing his documents to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. To drill down, Natalie Orpett talked with Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson and Professor Jonathan Shaub of the University of Kentucky College of Law. They discussed the dispute between Trump and the committee, the central issue of executive privilege and what it all means for the committee’s investigation.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | To me, it's kind of a one-off decision and I read the DC Circuit's opinion as essentially |
| 0:40.2 | saying, this is the same kind of need, right, that was expressed in Nixon. |
| 0:45.2 | I do think that's an important point and one that will have some relevance, but it's |
| 0:50.1 | because it's so tied to the events of January 6th and the fact that the current president |
| 0:56.6 | has said that this is a need of Congress, I think this is going to have a sort of little |
| 1:02.3 | impact for future disputes where the current president is saying this is not in the public |
| 1:09.7 | interest to disclose, right, and that we need to protect this for these reasons and of course |
| 1:13.6 | we're really going to have to grapple with an inter-branch dispute that the DC Circuit |
| 1:17.6 | just doesn't have to do in its opinion. |
| 1:19.5 | I feel like this opinion, although people will certainly cite it for some of the propositions |
| 1:23.6 | that Scott says, I think it's very easy to distinguish it and as a kind of unique one-off |
| 1:29.6 | circumstance, that's really about what happens when a incumbent and congress or an agreement |
| 1:35.1 | about a very extraordinary circumstance of an attack on the Capitol. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm Natalie Orpatt and this is the LawFair podcast, January 21st, 2022. |
| 1:47.7 | On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Trump V. Thompson, denying |
| 1:53.1 | Donald Trump's motion to block the National Archives from producing his documents to the |
| 1:57.5 | Congressional Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack. |
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