On Wednesday, the Supreme Court rejected former President Donald Trump’s attempt to undermine an investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
In a single-paragraph order, the Court effectively ensured that the US House committee investigating the Capitol riot will obtain documents that could reveal the extent of Trump’s role in those events. This is a departure from the conservative Court’s approach to Trump while he was president, when it effectively thwarted a congressional committee’s effort to obtain Trump’s financial records while Trump was still in office.
The Court did not disclose how each justice voted, but Justice Clarence Thomas publicly noted his dissent.
Trump v. Thompson concerns hundreds of pages of records from the Trump White House, which are currently held by the National Archives. The committee seeks a wide range of White House records concerning the attack on the Capitol, Trump’s activities surrounding January 6, 2021, and other documents that could shine a light on Trump’s efforts to thwart the peaceful transfer of power to President […]
Oh my goodness. This talk of Thomas being the only dissenter makes me want to pull my hair out. Thomas was the only PUBLIC dissenter. The decision could have been 5-4.
This claim by Trump is part of a longer trend which is the assumption into private control of what are public resources. In the commercial arena the hoarding of profits by Moderna for a vaccine developed by public dollars is a timely example. This process started under the Reagan administration who pioneered the art form of “privatizing the profits but socialize the costs”.