Mark Meadows can’t claim Executive Privilege unless President Biden invokes it for him, and he hasn’t, so Meadows is in pure contempt. These aren’t close questions.

A former President cannot assert Executive Privilege against a current President. Executive Privilege belongs to the actual President and no one else.

We need to hold accountable, legally and politically, everyone who sought to thwart the lawful 2020 presidential election and our basic processes of democracy. On television news and talk shows

We need so many amendments to the Constitution. Specific limits on pardon power

To bring a lawsuit, you need to have a claim that your rights were violated by a breach of the law, causing injury to you. To get an injunction halting the defendant from doing something, a plaintiff must show “irreparable harm,” but the simple act of counting votes causes no harm (it’s a numerical tally) and is not irreparable (among other things, a candidate can ask for a recount).

Pick any one of the many horrifying undisputed examples of Trump-family blending of political and financial corruption from last week’s NYT story and it will dwarf the bogus Hunter Biden story even if it were true. “The Swamp That Trump Built.” nytimes.com/interactive/20… This blatant abuse of the PRESIDENCY for money by Donald Trump and his children is happening NOW and has been happening for four years and no one disputes it.

Thank you @AmericanLawyer @GPassarellaTAL and the whole AmLaw team. I so wish I could have been there in person. As I said in my video message, “This award has special meaning to me because these are the best of times and the worst of times to be a lawyer in America. . . . 1/6

https://twitter.com/americanlawyer/status/1202389179176488960

Bad news first. These are the worst of times because the rule of law is under attack in this country–led by none other than the President of the United States.Through word and deed he has demeaned and undermined the federal judiciary and the role of lawyers in our democracy. 2/6

Here is a link to our just-filed merits brief for six #DACA recipients in in the Supreme Court. Oral argument is scheduled for Nov. 12.
gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl… 1/7 And here are statements from my partner Theodore B. Olson of @gibsondunn and our co-counsel DACA recipient @LCortesRomero, with text of the statements in the rest of the thread below.

gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl… 2/7

.@Brian Karem, known for his aggressive questoning at White House events, had his press pass suspended for 30 days. . . His attorney @BoutrousTed says this "violates the First Amendment" and due process. "I just want to go back and do my job," Karem says. cnn.com/videos/tv/2019… "I am provocative, and I am a smart aleck. But I'm not going to apologize for that. That's OK under the First Amendment," @BrianKarem says to @brianstelter.

Here is my statement regarding @PressSec’s unconstitutional suspension of @Playboy White House correspondent @BrianKarem’s hard pass
gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…. Thread below of text. “The White House press secretary’s arbitrary decision to suspend Brian Karem’s hard pass press credential violates the First Amendment and due process and is yet another example of this administration’s unconstitutional campaign to punish reporters and press coverage . . .

.@Playboy correspondent @BrianKarem has submitted this statement responding to the White House’s “preliminary decision” to suspend his hard pass White House press credentials. gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl…. 1/2 gibsondunn.com/wp-content/upl… As @BrianKarem explains, “It’s essential that I hold on to my hard pass so that I can continue to carry out my responsibility” “to ask tough questions of President Trump and his administration. After all, that’s what the First Amendment is all about.” 2/2

Special Counsel Mueller and his team and their report have been subjected to brutal, false political attacks from President Trump, his lawyers and congressional Republicans. This harms the public and democracy. Mueller needs to testify on the public record in full.

https://twitter.com/lauraajarrett/status/1130870391591854080

Under these circumstances especially, it is absurd and contrary to their mission to be fair and do justice, for Mueller and his team to resist a full public airing of what they did, why they did it, and the decisions that they did and didn’t make based on their investigation.

As I discussed with @maddow tonight, AG Barr’s claims that he is barred from disclosing grand jury information contained in the Mueller report to Congress by Rule 6(e) is false. Rule 6(e)(3)(D) creates a national security/foreign intelligence exception that applies here. 1/1 The exception, added in the wake of 9/11, allows DOJ to share grand jury information, without a court order, “involving foreign intelligence, counterintelligence” to federal law enforcement, intelligence, national defense/security officials to assist them in their duties.

If the Mueller prosecutors obtained the information, then there has been a waiver of Executive Privilege, by definition. So any claims of Executive Privilege regarding Mueller’s report are frivolous.

https://twitter.com/deadlinewh/status/1111741506270965763

The Trump team may argue that since Mueller and DOJ are part of the Executive Branch there has been no waiver but under that theory if Trump had done an interview with Mueller THAT would have been privileged. That can’t be right. Revealing info to antagonist = waiver.