The former White House chief of staff for the Trump administration, Mark Meadows has now requested the Supreme Court to speed up its decision on President Trump’s lawsuit to seek an executive privilege and block the Democrats from accessing sensitive communication records.
The January 6th Select Committee which consists of the most biased members of Congress is continually looking to unconstitutionally gain unauthorized power and violate laws.
George Terwilliger III, the attorney for Meadows is now arguing that his client is now stuck in a difficult place when it comes to fulfilling the committee’s unconstitutional request.
Terwilliger filed an amicus brief that says Meadows and other employees and officials of the Trump administration are dealing with “legal uncertainty” and are forced to choose between violating executive privilege and defying the congressional subpoena. Violating either would get them into legal trouble.
President Trump claims that the select committee’s demand to access sensitive communication records will be a threat to his executive privilege.
Dana Remus, the White House counsel for Joe Biden claims that “[it] is not in the best interests of the United States” to withhold these records from the select committee.
Terwilliger said that his clients have to choose “between volunteering potentially privileged information in defiance of the President under whom they served or to resist a congressional subpoena at great personal expense and with the threat of potential prosecution under.”
“If the Court were to hold that President Trump has a valid claim of privilege which President Biden cannot waive, or that the Select Committee is not pursuing a valid legislative purpose, then the Select Committee would need to narrow its investigation (or at least go back to the drawing board) in a way that might moot much of the pending litigation,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has already suggested the Department Of Justice charge Meadows for “contempt of Congress”
Terwilliger claims that SCOTUS’ speedy decision would be critical in establishing how Meadows will not only engage with the committee but how the committee may conduct its investigation.
“A prompt answer is important because, however the Court rules, its ruling will guide the parties in all of the related disputes,” he wrote. “Either way, the Court can narrow or eliminate the need for further litigation by addressing these issues now.”
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