Supreme Court's Watergate-era rulings against Nixon may end Trump's executive privilege claims
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Former President Donald Trump's attempt to withhold records from the House of Representatives related to the January 6 US Capitol attack based on executive privilege -- a claim rejected by President Joe Biden -- would present the US Supreme Court with a novel legal dilemma.
But past decisions involving assertions of executive privilege to keep documents confidential suggest Trump has a weak case, even if heard by this increasingly conservative high court, with three Trump appointees on the nine-member bench.
"The privilege is not for the benefit of the President as an individual, but for the benefit of the Republic," the Supreme Court declared in a 1977 touchstone decision involving former President Richard Nixon.
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