An appeals court has made the right decision in rejecting attempts to block the release of some of former President Donald Trump’s records related to the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion.
I had argued a month ago that the court was right to issue a temporary injunction against releasing the documents until it could consider Trump’s arguments to that effect, but I also wrote then that Trump’s claims seemed legally spurious. Having now had a chance to hear Trump’s case, the court was right to reject it. Executive privilege claims rarely have been thought to extend past a president’s term in office unless the current president continues to make those claims on behalf of the presidency as an institution. President Joe Biden, though, opposed Trump’s claims as a legal matter and supports the release of the documents.
