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On the recordMarch 31, 2022
So, please spare us the nonsense talk about executive privilege rejected now by every court that has looked at it. This is America. And there’s no executive privilege here for presidents, much less trade advisors to plot coups and organize insurrections against the People’s Government and the People’s Constitution, and then to cover up the evidence of their crimes. The courts aren’t buying it and neither are we.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
Source
msnbc.com

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Raskin argues against the use of executive privilege by Trump aides in the context of the January 6 investigation.

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