Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop the Biden Administration from handing over a trove of documents to the House panel investigating the Capitol riot, after two lower courts declined to stop the committee from receiving records from his administration.
On January 6th, Donald Trump arrived at the "Stop The Steal" rally in Washington, D.C.
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The House committee requested the White House records in order to investigate possible corruption, but Trump's attorneys asked the high court to review the legality of the request.
The doctrine of executive privilege allows presidents to keep some communications confidential.
He said that the committee was acting with political motives and that the request for documents was in violation of federal law.
The confidential presidential papers of a former President may not be used to advance a case study, according to Trump's attorneys.
The January 6 select committee, composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans, has requested scores of White House records, including visitor logs on the day of the riot, phone records and documents tied to Trump's voter fraud allegations. Trump asked the National Archives and Records Administration not to release some of the records, claiming they were covered by executive privilege, but President Joe Biden rejected this argument and declined to protect the documents, prompting Trump to file a lawsuit in October accusing the committee of leading a politically motivated "fishing expedition." An appeals court upheld a ruling that a federal district court had made against Trump, arguing that the current president is in charge of executive privilege.
