Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not hand over video coverage and emails from Jan 6 per a FOIA request. Pelosi based her decision on “sovereign immunity.” Pelosi and Democrats know if they release the 14,000 hours of footage from security cameras on January 6 it will blow apart their narrative.
(dcweekly.org)
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This is a delaying tactic, with no real expectation it will succeed. The Supreme Court will ultimately hold that officials cannot thwart investigations and FOIA requests by simply asserting sovereign immunity. The idea is clearly contrary to a government for the people and by the people.
In typical swampy fashion, Pelosi is buying time while the narrative that Trump organized an attack on the Capitol gets driven deeper into morons’ tiny brains.
Congress is not subject to FOIA. Here is the Judicial Watch actual release.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/pelosi-congress-claims-immunity-in-court/
Here is the relevant passage if you don't want to read the whole thing.
Congress exempts itself from the Freedom of Information Act. Judicial Watch, therefore, brought its lawsuit under the common law right of access to public records. In opposing the broad assertion of secrecy, Judicial Watch details Supreme Court and other precedent that upholds the public’s right to know what “their government is up to:”