U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta's ruling means Navarro's trial on charges he snubbed a congressional subpoena can begin next week.
's bid to escape contempt charges by claiming former President Donald Trump had invoked executive privilege over his potential testimony to a congressional panel investigating the events leading up to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The ruling paves the way for Navarro to stand trial next week on criminal contempt of Congress charges for ignoring subpoenas from the House Jan. 6 committee. Navarro has claimed that Trump directed him to invoke executive privilege — a privilege the protects presidential deliberation — but there was no evidence Trump had actually done so, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta found at a pre-trial hearing.
Mehta cited three pillars of invoking executive privilege: that it must be made by the president or an authorized representative of his; that it must be made after personal consideration by the president or an authorized representative; and that it cannot be validly asserted by what Mehta called “mere acquiescence” or a “blanket assertion of privilege.
The committee contended it needed information from Navarro because the trade adviser had played a key role “in the ex-president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election,” and had
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