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Before christmas, december 23rd. and tonight, it was only justice clarence thomas who publicly disagreed with the decision. also of note, justice brett kavanaugh, he wrote separately here to clearly state that this order it doesn t settle the question of whether a current president s decision to assert or not assert executive privilege takes priority over a former president s assertion. that issue will actually be left for another day. but the court s saying here in this particular case, since the lower courts essentially decided that trump s arguments were just too weak to assert privilege even if he had been sitting president, that means that trump cannot block his records. so this is, as you mentioned, a significant win for the committee. it now means that they will receive and review 700-plus documents. anderson, this includes a plethora of documents, call logs, visitor logs from the white house on january 6th, a record of trump s movements and meetings that day. plus, some key ....
It is a significant defeat for the former president. we will talk about the implications momentarily. but first, cnn s jessica schneider with what the high court actually decided. so what exactly does this entail? reporter: well, you know, this entailed the trump team can no longer block these documents and the committee, anderson, expecting the 700-plus documents to be handed over very soon from the national archives. the supreme court said in fairly short order tonight that trump and his legal team cannot block these records that they have actually managed to keep from the committee for several months. this is actually a decision that we have been waiting for from the supreme court since just before christmas, december 23rd. and tonight, it was only justice clarence thomas who publicly disagreed with the decision. also of note, justice brett kavanaugh, he wrote separately here to clearly state that this order it doesn t settle the question of whether a current president s decisio ....