US President Donald Trump speaks at a retreat with Republican lawmakers.
Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop the House select committee from getting White House records.
Two weeks ago, two lower courts rejected Trump's argument that the records are protected by executive privilege, a legal doctrine that allows some White House communications to be kept private.
President Joe Biden did not invoke privilege over the documents.
The committee was lashed out by Trump in a statement Thursday, which continued his false claims that Biden was elected president over him because of widespread ballot fraud.
The January 6th Unselect Committee should be told the truth by the people who are being persecution, that they are angry about the 2020 presidential election.
He said that people are entitled to freedom of speech, and perhaps there has been no time in our country's history where that has been violated. They don't want to talk about election results because they know they can't win.
The select committee is looking at Trump's role in January's riot, when hundreds of Trump's supporters violently invaded the Capitol and forced members of the House and Senate to flee their chambers.
The rioters were spurred by Trump's repeated lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him, so they temporarily stopped Congress from approving Biden's Electoral College victory.
The committee is looking into whether Trump tried to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes.
The vice chair of the committee, Liz Cheney of Wyoming, said last week that there was a question about whether Trump would obstruct.
A federal district judge ruled in favor of the committee last month, saying that Trump's stance appeared to be based on the idea that his executive power was not permanent.
The incumbent's view is given more weight in disputes between current and former presidents.
The District of Columbia Circuit upheld Chutkan's ruling after Trump appealed.
Biden and the Legislative Branch have shown a national interest in and pressing need for the prompt disclosure of these documents.
The appeals court granted Trump's request to temporarily halt the release of the documents during litigation, giving Trump's lawyers 14 days to file a response to the Supreme Court before the temporary injunction would be lifted.
