Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims
Source: ABC News
A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe. Trump's legal team had challenged the subpoenas by asserting executive privilege, which is the right of a president to keep confidential the communications he has with advisers.
In a sealed order last week, Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege for Meadows and a number of others, including Trump's former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, former top aide Stephen Miller, and former deputy chief of staff and social media director Dan Scavino, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said. Trump is likely to appeal the ruling, according to sources briefed on the matter. A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/meadows-top-trump-aides-ordered-testify-jan-6/story?id=98101813
Full headline: Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege
Kyle Cheney had tweeted something earlier this morning about another sealed order that had come out around the time that Corcoran was ordered to testify and they were unsure who/what it referenced. I expect it may have to do with this OP.
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UPDATE: Corcoran has now entered the grand jury space of the courthouse for his anticipated testimony in the Trump documents case
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SIDE NOTE: Yesterday, the same appeals court panel that rejected efforts to block Corcoran's testimony made an identical ruling in another sealed case that we have yet to identify.
It's a stored communication (phone/email) case that Howell decided on March 3.
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9:14 AM · Mar 24, 2023
Biophilic
(3,641 posts)republianmushroom
(13,554 posts)26 months and counting
Walleye
(30,996 posts)I hate that Mark Meadows, fascists would never succeed without guys like him
Fiendish Thingy
(15,568 posts)I would be surprised if they even agree to hear the case.
underpants
(182,719 posts)Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)Trying anything to skirt the law and avoid responsibility
MN2theMax
(1,412 posts)maxsolomon
(33,265 posts)then take the 5th.
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)It's a stored communication (phone/email) case that Howell decided on March 3.
And am speculating that the order for those guys to testify was appealed and rejected (but the disposition is sealed).
In Corcoran's case, he didn't appeal further and is testifying right now. The issue would be whether that laundry list of others, if they are actually the subject of the appeal ruling noted that is sealed, would demand en banc and then SCOTUS... But we have been there, done that before with the SCOTUS, and they have consistently rejected "Executive Privilege" claims.
ETA - Alternately, it could possibly relate to Navarro too...
Fullduplexxx
(7,851 posts)Bayard
(22,035 posts)Game over.
msfiddlestix
(7,272 posts)To clarify, it appears rulings and testimonies seem to be routinely sealed. Some are revealed in the occasional leak via twitter or news org, which I frequently find buried in the story at the bottom of the article or similarly buried as an incidental mention.
so frustrating!
housecat
(3,121 posts)KS Toronado
(17,178 posts)Meadows
Stephen Miller
John Ratcliffe
Stephen Miller
Robert O'Brien
Stephen Miller
Dan Scavino
Stephen Miller
Nick Luna
Stephen Miller
John McEntee
Stephen Miller
Ken Cuccinelli
Hope Jack Smith's investigation balloons like Watergate did, except this time the head guy goes down also.
peppertree
(21,615 posts)It's right in his name!
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)peppertree
(21,615 posts)They really do deserve each other.
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)peppertree
(21,615 posts)Right-wingers are entitled to their fixations, of course - but the problem is that they threaten to drag our democracy (along with the rest of us) down with them.
A lot of wisdom in some of those old fairy tales.
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)or at least under Meadows!
KS Toronado
(17,178 posts)In fact he's all over the place.
I hate that weasel.
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)erronis
(15,216 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
In her 2011 book Eichmann Before Jerusalem, based largely on the Sassen interviews and Eichmann's notes made while in exile, Bettina Stangneth argues instead that Eichmann was an ideologically motivated antisemite and lifelong committed Nazi who intentionally built a persona as a faceless bureaucrat for presentation at the trial.[222] Historians such as Christopher Browning, Deborah Lipstadt, Yaacov Lozowick, and David Cesarani reached a similar conclusion: that Eichmann was not the unthinking bureaucratic functionary that Arendt believed him to be.[223]
BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)Link to tweet
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Never forget that Stephen Miller is primarily responsible for trump's policy for brown babies in cages.
https://Bit.ly.com/BDDBook
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JudyM
(29,225 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,705 posts)although I'm curious what his role might have been for J6 given that he seemed to focus on inflicting as much pain as he could on the domestic policy agenda, which took a lot of work.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,837 posts)democrank
(11,092 posts)I cant stop grinning.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Getting pretty damn sick of the drip-drip-drip and wagon-circling, and Trumps endless appeals that always go no-fucking-where.
Yes, I am well aware of how the process works, so I dont need lectures. I am just getting sick and tired of the daily Trump circus of criminality.
While Im ranting, executive privilege, as well as the DOJs opinion on pursuing criminal charges against a sitting president, need to be more closely examined. This is a large reason why this bullshit is never ending.