the January 6th committee investigation. This is because Biden hasn't supported Trump's attempts to invoke executive privilege in this investigation. However, a current or former executive branch officials, constitutionally based immunity from congressional inquiries does not extend to increase into undertaken by the DOJ. The DOJ is conducting a criminal investigation. So there are no real, there are no real fences to what they can ask. Going back to the Watergate era, the Supreme Court and lower courts have reasoned there is a higher public interest at stake in criminal investigations of public officials than in congressional inquiries. Ergo, almost prosecutors had concluded sip-a-lone possessed information vital to possible criminal charges. It would not have subpoenaed him to appear before a grand jury. The Justice Department itself has issued the subpoena to the former White House Council, virtually all criminal investigations in which executive privilege claims have arisen have been conducted by specially appointed prosecutors. These prosecutors are lawyers brought in from outside the government when the DOJ is laboring under a conflict of interest. Most often because the DOJ, part of the incumbent's administration, is it...