>Separately, there’s a Supreme Court case called Nixon v. General Services Administration, the agency that had possession of the records of former President Nixon. Congress had passed a law to allow the GSA to seize and preserve all President Nixon’s presidential records. President Nixon sued, claiming the act was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court upheld the law and basically decided that the current president is the right person to make judgments about the assertion of executive privilege. That’s because under our system, the authority attaches to the office, not the human. President Biden has this power because he’s president, not because he’s Joe Biden. And when President Trump was in office, he had the power because he was President Trump, not because he was Donald Trump. . . Even if the court concluded that President Trump had at least some power to raise executive privilege issues, it would also need to conclude that there was not a significant showing of need by the congressional committee seeking the records and the assertion of privilege wasn’t designed to cover up wrongdoing. I doubt President Trump could ever convince a court that there’s not a compelling need for communications involving whether he was fomenting an armed insurrection against the Capitol. I don’t think President Trump would win on either question, but to succeed in asserting privilege he’d have to win on both. https://today.law.harvard.edu/can-donald-trump-still-assert-executive-privilege/