the courts emphatically rejected his arguments. and now with a majority in the supreme court they have as well. they said that the dissenting voice in the decision, trump has now the documents are being turned over. they also noted the fact that a number of close trump have been relying on similar claims of executive privilege to defy the subpoenas from the committee. it s not clear at this time how this ruling will affect those arguments if at all. she is a former staff supreme that other lawyers felt that an amethyst brief of the, asking the supreme court of what s to do policing records about january sex. and she joins me now. can we just start with what the court is holding here? and what it means on the ground? sure, so the court summarily denied trump s appeal. so they are refusing to stand in the way of the immediate release of these january 6th reference from the national archives, to the select committee. if there is someone working late in the archives, th
Showing that they re motivated, and they had to move quickly. proving that this was a lightning case by the supreme court standards as they are likely to do today, but it s most likely that the delay tactic didn t work because right now those documents are being transmitted and that is the end of that. right? that is the end of that. as you say, there will be other fights that are coming up quickly. a flurry of activity about subpoenas and witnesses who have to come up. they will have to decide how this ruling affects them. it s very clear now that they cannot make these kind of blanket statements, like what s mark meadows and steve bannon, particularly that they must show why a particular document is or is not privileged. i think that is an important point because this theory of executive privilege that they offer before from this ex
The courts emphatically rejected his arguments. and now with a majority in the supreme court they have as well. they said that the dissenting voice in the decision, trump has now the documents are being turned over. they also noted the fact that a number of close trump have been relying on similar claims of executive privilege to defy the subpoenas from the committee. it s not clear at this time how this ruling will affect those arguments if at all. she is a former staff supreme that other lawyers felt that an amethyst brief of the, asking the supreme court of what s to do policing records about january sex. and she joins me now. can we just start with what the court is holding here?
Developments we are guarding a trove of documents that the ex president has been trying to block the release of. in a huge ruling, the supreme court has rejected trump s attempt to of the january six insurrection, of accessing those documents on trump s time in the white house. the committee said that just four pages. but this decision, that just happened 90 minutes ago, the committee will have access to all of the pages of the documents requested. and there is a new round of subpoenas from the january six committee which we will get to in just a bit. to put this supreme court ruling in context, congress has been fighting the release of this documents since last october. but he says that he has executive privilege even though the current president, joe biden, said he was not covered by it.
Perhaps in further litigation. that is exactly right. justice kavanaugh, he would have said he would have eluded that the former president does have quite a bit to say about the nature of the privilege, but the court in that 8 to 1 ruling decided that it did not have to decide. in other words, it refrain from making any ruling, saying that they did not have to. as the court of appeals said, on any standard trump would lose. and that s because they did not make a particular showing at all. he just claims absolute privilege. it did not work in the past, and then it would not work here. he did not make a good excuse as to why the privilege would apply, and that is why he