The White House has declined former President Donald Trump’s newest claims of executive privilege relating to documents requested by the House committee investigating the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.
In a letter to National Archivist David Ferriero on Monday, White House counsel Dana Remus asserted that the former president’s assertion of executive benefit “is not warranted.”
“President Biden has actually identified that an assertion of executive benefit is not in the very best interests of the United States, and therefore is not warranted, as to the files offered to the White Home on September 16, 2021, and September 23, 2021,” Remus wrote, according to the Hill.
“Appropriately, President Biden does not promote the former President’s assertion of privilege,” Remus added.
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.(Picture by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)The letter follows President Trump filed a lawsuit to obstruct the January 6 committee from acquiring White Home call logs, schedules, and other files prior to and on the day of the Capitol Hill riot. The Biden White Home has actually continued to deny the former president’s assertions of executive advantage and will think about requests from the committee on a case-by-case basis.
“As we’ve stated formerly, this will be an ongoing process and this is simply the very first set of documents,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated this month.
“And we will evaluate questions of advantage on a case-by-case basis, however the President has also been clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance for both Congress and the American individuals to have a total understanding of the occasions of that day to avoid them from happening once again,” Psaki added.
U.S. President Joe Biden talks to reporters on the South Lawn upon go back to the White Home in Washington, DC, on October 5, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP by means of Getty Images) Though the Biden White House has authority over which files can be covered under executive benefit, President Trump’s lawsuit could muddy the waters if it were sent all the method to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the full scope of a president’s executive opportunity.
“While the Supreme Court formerly ruled throughout the Nixon age that former presidents have some authority to assert executive advantage, the complete scope of the question hasn’t been attended to,” noted the Hill.
President Trump’s claim has been set up for a hearing before a federal judge on November 4.