fun to watch the elite legal community try to smash congress's interests into powder and endorse an impossibly expansive interpretation of what the executive even is based entirely on the courts' prudential reluctance to wade into separation of powers issues in the past.
https://twitter.com/ktbenner/status/1449416074097745929
the courts have never ruled on whether a former president can assert, contrary to the wishes of the sitting president, executive privilege over his communications with a man not employed by the government about obstructing the transfer of power so this is a really thorny question
without sarcasm, I will say that the courts' historical discomfort with being the arbiters of anything touching presidents, their susceptibility to tendentious OLC memos, and the unpredictability of what a largely Republican judiciary will do with an unplowed field...
...all argue in favor of congress at least developing the capability for putting its own force on the field by reviving the inherent contempt power.
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