New Rockford Transcript - Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Former President Donald Trump’s assertion of executive privilege to deny the January 6 Select Committee access to his aides, advisers, documents and memo, brings center stage, once again, the issue of the nature, scope and authority for presidential claims to secrecy. Rarely have the stakes for the republic been this high.

The committee’s investigation into the insurrection at the Capitol...