The highest jurisdiction of the United States has shown to the former president who refuses to open his archives to the parliamentary committee responsible for investigating the events of January 6, 2021.
Le Monde with AFP
The light will be able to be made on the role of Donald Trump in the assault of the Capitol. The Supreme Court paved the way, Wednesday, January 19, to the transfer of documents related to the actions of the former US President to the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on the events of January 6, 2021.
The highest jurisdiction of the United States rejected, to a majority of eight new judges, the attempt at the magnat of real estate to maintain the confidentiality of the archives of the White House in a short stop that does not explain Its motivations.
These hundred pages of documents include, among other things, the lists of people who visited him or called it on January 6, 2021, as well as notes taken during these exchanges.
The decision of the Supreme Court represents a considerable victory for the “Special Commission” of the House of Representatives which is engaged in a real judicial guerrilla with the former president and his relatives.
The members of the Commission, mostly Democratic, seek to determine the role of the Republican billionaire in the attack of thousands of its supporters on the headquarters of the congress, at the moment when the elected officials certified the victory of his opponent Democrat Joe Biden. the presidential election.
They lead a race against the watch because they want to publish their findings before the mid-term legislative elections, in less than a year, in which the Republicans could resume control of the House and bury their works.
“The presidents are not kings”
Lawyers of the former president, counselors, former chief of practice, spokesman …: For months, the Commission multiplies the assignments to appear in his entourage, without success so far. Among the last convements, the former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a faithful among the faithful of Donald Trump who had supported him in his post-election crusade.
Donald Trump, which remains central in his camp and does not exclude to represent the presidential election of 2024, denounces a “political game” and tries to block the efforts of the Commission.
In particular, he invoked a prerogative of the executive power that protects the confidentiality of communications between its members. For him, it applies even to former presidents.
However, the federal courts, however, rejected its requests, pointing out that the current executive authority had renounced use of this prerogative and authorized the transmission of its archives to the Congress.
“The presidents are not kings and the complainant is not president,” had judged the Magistrate Tanya Chutkan in the first instance decision, then confirmed on appeal.
The Trump Organization In the turmoil
The Supreme Court, which, however, counts three on nine magistrates appointed by Donald Trump, validated these judgments. Only Conservative J. Clarence Thomas said he would have given him satisfaction.
In a separate judicial record, the former president also saw the sky darkened. Tuesday night, the Attorney General of New York State announced having “discounted” fraudulent “tax practices” within the Trump Organization.
In a document of more than one hundred pages, Letitia James accuses him, as well as two of his children, to have poorly valued some of their assets to draw an “economic advantage”.
According to her, he would have underestimated property from the tax authority to pay less taxes, and would have on the contrary overestimated them to the banks to obtain loans.