NEW: Here's the entire bonkers “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN” powerpoint that @MarkMeadows has provided to the @January6thCmte
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Wow. Trump lawyer Justin Clark just stepped in it with Judge Millett. He's telling her that a former president could sue to stop a current president from using a previous administration's records to conduct foreign policy and national security decision-making.
Clark can't give Millett a situation un which he thinks a court could let a current president use those documents under her hypothetical.
Judge Jackson is pointing out that GSA v Nixon was about whether Nixon retained a confidentiality interest in documents Congress had passed a law to let the US take possession of after he'd resigned.
Judge to Justin Clark in Trump/NARA hearing: "isn't the person who is best able and in a position to determine the executive privilege the executive?"
Clark: "I don't agree with that."
This isn't going well for him so far.
"The separation of powers issue...I find hard to discern here because in a rare instance, the executive branch and the legislative branch are in agreement," the judge says.
"I don't see why the separation of powers argument that you are talking about exists," she adds.
NEW: The @HouseGOP has math and history on their side heading into the 2022 midterm elections, but @TheDemocrats think they have an ace in the hole in Donald Trump.
“As long as he is out there, he is doing the Democrats’ job for them in terms of keeping them engaged, keeping them…outraged and determined to defeat Trumpism,” @dccc adviser @KurtBardella said. independent.co.uk/voices/midterm…
NEW: As Donald Trump tries to shield his former aides from the insurrection probe, experts are warning that a timid response will allow the former president to do yet more damage to American democracy. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
“The underlying legal questions that we face – about testimony in the McGahn litigation and about documents in the Mazers litigation – have now been addressed at length...so the soil has been tilled, that allows things to move faster,” @NormEisen said.independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
At today's @SenateCommerce hearing with @FrancesHaugen, @MarshaBlackburn all but calls @Facebook officials liars: "Having seen the data that you've presented ... I feel pretty confident that it's Facebook, who has done the misrepresenting to this committee."
Whistleblower @FrancesHaugen: "I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."
.@FrancesHaugen: "Facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been more division, more harm, more lies more threats and more combat. In some cases, this does this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence".