Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
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And, Ludig added, he will further ruin the Department of Justice.
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As soon as he took office, Blanche issued a memo dramatically expanding executive privilege, which he described as the authority of the president to withhold certain sensitive information for the public good.
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Executive privilege has enabled the president to shield conversations with key advisors from public scrutiny, with the logic that a president must be able to get a wide range of advice given freely by those in the executive branch.
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Now though, the Department of Justice under Blanche says the president can shield presidential communications with private advisors so long as the communications relate to official presidential deal making.
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The memo defines as a private advisor anyone the president consults outside the executive branch or
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As John Light of Talking Points Memo notes, this definition would enable the White House to defy congressional subpoenas for anyone to whom the president talks.
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As Avery lots of Axios reports, Democrats had been planning to begin investigations of Trump's corruption if they retake control of the House and or the Senate.
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Recognizing that the White House would stonewall them, they intended to subpoena companies, college officials, and private citizens to testify.
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The memo, which is not legally binding, but which indicates the administration's position, would hamper that effort.
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Lotz notes that the administration is already fighting a subpoena in a lawsuit filed by the American Bar Association that orders Trump's senior personal lawyer, Boris Epstein, to testify about the deals the Trump administration struck with major law firms early in his second term.
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Senator Adam Schiff, a Democrat of California, wrote
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This latest opinion should be seen as a partisan measure to insulate the president and his corrupt activities from congressional subpoenas when the majority flips.
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Thursday was the day that Judge Emmett Sullivan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia held a status conference in the case of Fang versus Blanche.
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This is a lawsuit brought by independent journalist Katie Fang to force the Department of Justice to produce unredacted versions of documents from the Epstein Files that she says were redacted against the explicit instructions in the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
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With that law, Congress ordered the Department of Justice to release all the files gathered by the FBI investigation into sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein with redactions only to protect victims no later than december nineteenth, twenty twenty five.
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Almost eight months later, the Department of Justice has refused to do so, probably producing about half the files, with many of the documents heavily redacted at the same time that it released some of the victims' names, photographs, and identifying information.
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As legal analyst Joyce White Vance explained in her civil discourse, Fang sued in April for access to an unredacted version of a handful of files, including emails about a torture video and sexual activity with girls, as well as notes from FBI interviews with a victim who claims Trump sexually assaulted her when she was 13.
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and materials in foreign languages, which the Department of Justice has not produced at all.
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She also asked the Department of Justice to explain why they had made the redactions they did, something the law requires, but the Justice Department has not done.
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In late June, Sullivan granted Fang's request.
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