The judge in ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro's contempt of Congress case has ruled that Navarro has failed to show a formal assertion of executive privilege by Trump.

The judge overseeing Peter Navarro’s contempt of Congress case ruled in a pre-trial hearing Wednesday that the former Trump adviser “has not met his burden” to show a formal assertion of executive privilege by former president Donald Trump.

Navarro will stand trial on criminal contempt of Congress next week for defying subpoenas issued to him by the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a lengthy ruling, Judge Amit Mehta said that Navarro did not provide evidence that Trump asserted executive privilege specific to the Jan 6. committee’s subpoena.

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    65·
    1 year ago

    This is actually one I’ve been waiting for. It’s about goddamn time some of these jackasses start seeing the inside of a courtroom for defying congressional subpoenas.

    • cedarmesa@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      Same. Sat and watched these guys give the middle finger to congress repeatedly. Was like, wtf, certainly they can do something?

      • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
        18·
        1 year ago

        Flashback:

        Under Navarro’s plan, dubbed the “Green Bay Sweep,” former Vice President Mike Pence was to send disputed election results back to the states, thereby forcing hours of debate on Capitol Hill.

        “It was a perfect plan,” Navarro said in an interview late last year with the Daily Beast. “And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protesters, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.”

        Now that the masterminds behind the plan to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected dictator are seeing some consequences, how about we also go after co-conspirators like those “over 100 congressmen” who were so happy to go along with it?

        • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          Imagine if we like really did “drain the swamp” and suddenly started holding all these fucks accountable and just replaced them all with people who will really work for our best interests?

        • DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml
          11·
          1 year ago

          Start with the Republican congressmen who spent fucking July 4 as guests in Russia attending off-the-record meetings with Russian counterparts

  • cedarmesa@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    Its been a tough few weeks for aspiring fascists. Did he ever consider not overthrowing democracy. Oh well.

    • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
      211·
      1 year ago

      For me, it’s been tough waiting for the grownups to get their plans completely finished to be able to crush these people.

      The morons took the quiet as a permission to keep spewing out incriminating evidence.

      I kept screaming NOW!, but the grownups said not now, they are still digging their own graves.

      So this is really fun

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    17·
    1 year ago

    And FYI Trump can’t exert executive privilege NOW because he isn’t the executive anymore. Biden could exert that privilege on his behalf, but good luck with that.