Supreme Court rejects Trump request to block release of records to January 6 committee

The East Room of the White House is where the president is.

The Supreme Court denied Donald Trump's request to stop the White House records from being sent to the House committee.

In late 2021, Trump lost his attempt to block the panel from getting more than 700 pages of documents from the National Archives.

He had argued in the courts that he had the authority to invoke executive privilege to prevent the disclosure of the records, and that he had used that argument in his application to the Supreme Court to take the case.

President Joe Biden did not invoke executive privilege for the records.

The Supreme Court said in its decision Wednesday that the questions of whether and when a former president can get a court order blocking the release of records despite an incumbent president saying they can be released are unprecedented and raise serious and substantial concerns.

The high court noted that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals did not address those questions because it rejected President Trump's privilege claims.

The Supreme Court said that President Trump's status as a former President did not affect the court's decision.

Clarence Thomas was the only Supreme Court justice who would have granted an injunction blocking the release of the records.

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