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Cite as:  595 U. S. ____ (2022) 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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No. 21A272 
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DONALD J. TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE 
UNITED STATES v. BENNIE G. THOMPSON, IN HIS 
OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED 
STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE TO 
INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH 
ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES 
CAPITOL, ET AL. 

ON APPLICATION FOR STAY OF MANDATE AND INJUNCTION 
PENDING REVIEW 

[January 19, 2022] 

The application for stay of mandate and injunction pend-
ing review presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him re-
ferred to the Court is denied.  The questions whether and 
in  what  circumstances  a  former  President  may  obtain  a 
court order preventing disclosure of privileged records from
his  tenure  in  office,  in  the  face  of  a  determination  by  the
incumbent  President  to  waive  the  privilege,  are  unprece-
dented  and  raise  serious  and  substantial  concerns.    The 
Court of Appeals, however, had no occasion to decide these 
questions  because  it  analyzed  and  rejected  President
Trump’s privilege claims “under any of the tests [he] advo-
cated,” Trump v. Thompson, 20 F. 4th 10, 33 (CADC 2021),
without regard to his status as a former President, id., at 
40–46.  Because the Court of Appeals concluded that Presi-
dent Trump’s claims would have failed even if he were the
incumbent,  his  status  as  a  former  President  necessarily 
made no difference to the court’s decision.  Id., at 33 (noting 
no “need [to] conclusively resolve whether and to what ex-
tent a court,” at a former President’s behest, may “second
guess the sitting President’s” decision to release privileged