Here’s the Supreme Court’s opinion shutting down Trump’s effort to block the 1/6 committee. Justice Thomas would’ve granted the application; Justice Kavanaugh filed a lengthy statement (which I’ve not yet read). supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf…
While granting the 1/6 committee what it needs, the Court has largely hollowed out the DC Circuit’s opinion in the case, criticizing it for reaching the question of the effect of Trump’s status as a former president when it had already held none of his privilege claims would fly.
Then Kavanaugh goes a step further and says if they had reached the question of Trump’s status he would’ve voted the other way, which takes some of the sting out of the criticism of the court below for writing a bunch of dicta.
No mention of the Presidential Records Act. No thought given to any circumstances in which the public’s interest in disclosure would weigh more heavily than the president’s advisers feeling all warm and cuddly. Just an ironclad rule. Kavanaugh is very bad at thinking. 
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