he s taken legal action to block the release of official white house communication records. and these delays mean it s not certain the committee will finish its work before the mid term elections in november. and the politics of this remain farfrom predictable. while many condemned what happened onjanuary the 6th, the idea that underpinned it remains. a year on from the storming of the capitol, polls show two thirds of republicans believe voter fraud helped joe biden to win. given that that didn t happen, that raises profound questions about one of the two main parties in the world s most high profile democracy. and the democrats argue harm is already being done. the root cause of january 6th, is still with us today. it is the big lie, pushed by donald trump, that is undermining faith in our political system. but for all this criticism, for all the convictions of those involved in the riot, donald trump remains the dominant political figure in the republican party. and it remains the c
for that reason, the executive privilege for presidential communications is a qualified one. what mr. trump seeks is to have an article 3 court intervene and nullify the judgments of the president and congress to delay the committee s work and to derail the negotiations and accommodations that the political branches have made. essential to the rule of law is the principle that a former president must meet the same legal standards for obtaining preliminary adjunctive relief as anyone else. former president trump has failed that task. benjamin franklin said at the founding that we have, quote, a republic, if we can keep it. the events of january 6th exposed the fragility of those democratic institutions and traditions that we have perhaps come to take for granted. in response the president of the united states and congress have each made the judgment that access to this subset of presidential communication records is necessary for a to address a matter of great constitutional moment for
court since he has been in political life. in this case, in this case where he is trying to keep his records and his white house documents from going to the january 6th investigation, in this case, the brakes are failing. the brake pedal is not working to slow this thing down. it just isn t slowing down enough to allow former president trump to totally dodge this investigation. things are going much faster than they usually do through the federal courts because of the urgency of the january 6th investigation because the seriousness of that matter, that s under investigation. i mean, if you look at the time line here, it s really really compressed. the date on which trump first sued to stop the january 6th investigation from getting his records and documents, that was october 18th. that went to federal court in washington, d.c. the court agreed to hear it on an expedited schedule. the federal court hearing that case ruled against him, november 9th was only 22 days from when
litigation strategy. i think that was true in his business life from what we know of omit, and it s certainly bee true of his extensive experience in the court since he has been in political life. well, in this case, in this case where he s trying to keep his records andhi his white house documents from going to the january 6th investigation, in thisy case, the brakes are failing. the brake pedal is not working to slow this thing down. it just isn t slowing down enough to allow former president trump to totally dodge this investigation. things are going much faster than they usually do through the federal courts because of the urgency of the january 6th e lo rehe investigation, because of the seriousness of that matter that s under investigation. i mean, if you look at the time line here, it s really really compressed. the date on which trump first sued to stop the january 6th investigation from getting his records and documents, that was october 18th. that went to federal court in was
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