Meadows filed his friend-of-the-court brief in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Trump against the select committee in October.
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, facing a potential criminal charge for defying a Jan. 6 select committee subpoena, is pleading with the Supreme Court to expedite its consideration of a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump — a decision he notes could get him, and other former Trump aides, off the hook.
In a 34-page brief on Friday, Meadows said he and other Trump aides subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee are caught between a former president — who claims he can still assert executive privilege — and President Joe Biden, who has rejected Trump’s assertions and ordered the release of key documents to congressional investigators.
“[Meadows] and others like him therefore face the difficult choice between volunteering potentially privileged information in defiance of the President under whom they served or to resist a congressional subpoena at great personal expense and with the threat of potential prosecution,” Meadows’ lawyer George Terwilliger III wrote in the brief.
Meadows filed his friend-of-the-court brief in the ongoing lawsuit filed by Trump against the select committee in October. The federal district and appeals courts in Washington, D.C., have forcefully rejected Trump’s effort to overrule Biden, but the matter is now awaiting action at the Supreme Court. The justices are meeting for a conference on Friday, and the House has urged them to reject Trump’s effort to stay the lower-court rulings — and to do so by mid-January.
For Meadows, a decision by the justices to hear the case could spare him potential criminal contempt charges. The House asked the Justice Department last month to charge Meadows for refusing to appear for a deposition, and DOJ has been reviewing the referral for more than three weeks. The department has already charged another Trump ally, Steve Bannon, for refusing to cooperate with the committee. Bannon is slated to go to trial in July.
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Mark Meadows is pleading with the Supreme Court to expedite its consideration of a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump — a decision that could get him, and other former Trump aides, off the hook https://t.co/y5pH42qrnu
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