US Supreme Court demands release of January 6 riot case | Donald Trump News

The former U.S. president says the White House files associated with the Capitol uprising are protected by “executive privileges.”

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to step down from the Congressional committee investigating the documents. January 6 uprising In the Capitol.

Trump’s lawyers argued in a petition filed with the Supreme Court on Thursday that the U.S. Constitution and other legislation, the Presidential Records Act, give former presidents a “clear right” to protect their secret records from early release.

“This lawsuit poses a clear threat to that right,” they wrote.

The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia arrived two weeks later discard Trump challenged Democrat President Joe Biden’s decision to hand over the documents. This decision will be suspended until the Supreme Court decides.

Trump sue the U.S. House of Representatives committee, which is investigating the January 6 uprising, as well as the U.S. National Archives to stop the White House from releasing documents related to the incident.

He claims that a former president he has the right to claim “executive privilege” over the acts, arguing that their release would harm the presidency in the future.

Biden did it before specified documents that belong to the executive branch should not be subject to executive privilege, which protects the confidentiality of certain communications within the White House.

Leaving them in Congress is in the best interest of the nation, the Biden administration said in October.

weeks later repeating false claims Trump said on January 6 that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was hampered by widespread fraud. fiery speech In Washington, DC, he urged his supporters to “stop the robbery.”

A crowd of his supporters then attack The Capitol Building was where Congress was holding a meeting to ensure Biden’s election victory. He was later a Republican leader accused in terms of the deadly incident of “inciting rebellion”.

But Trump’s lawyers He said in the court file that the request for registration by the House Select Committee was “very broad” and that it was an “invasion of executive privilege without precedent.”

Earlier this month, the ruling in the Court of Appeals, which prompted Trump’s latest appeal to the Supreme Court, was another blow to the former Republican president and his allies. They have been in a constant legal battle with the commission for documents and witnesses.

Documents from presidential diaries, visitor logs, draft speeches, handwritten notes are from ex-“January 6 events” files. Mark Meadows head of cabinet, and “a draft Executive Order on the subject of the integrity of the election,” the National Archives said.

A congressional panel examining the January 6 incident said it needed records to understand any role Trump might play. promoting violence.

Trump has argued that he could call it executive privilege when he was president at the time, even though he is no longer in office.

The Supreme Court Trump has a conservative 6-3 majority that includes three judges appointed, but his demands have not always been met.

In February, the court rejected a request to block the disclosure of its tax records as part of a criminal investigation in New York. In 2020, the court also rejected attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn that year’s presidential election, Which he lost against Biden.