| Beyond that - when the sitting President and a former President differ on whether or not Executive Privilege applies to a specific collection of information (as is clearly the case here), which one should apply if we permit EP to attach in perpetuity, as you suggest?
Now, you have to hand it to Trump - nobody ever bothered asking this question before him. SCOTUS's answer is merely a clear, careful expression of what has always been documented to be the case: Presidential Executive Privilege extends solely and exclusively to the current President of the United States. It's not SCOTUS's fault that this is the first time the sitting President has explicitly waived a former President's claim of privilege. If Trump hadn't blatantly attempted to use Executive Privilege in an effort to obstruct justice, we wouldn't have this debacle to deal with.
Bottom line - you're complaining because you don't like the change, but there's no change to complain about. It's not like SCOTUS makes the laws, any more than former President's do. |
