JUST IN: Former President Trump launches last-ditch effort to stop Jan. 6 committee from obtaining White House records on Friday.
Scott Olson / Getty Images fileLawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the National Archivesto the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
Trump has tried to claim executive privilege over the documents, and contends the records should be kept secret"in perpetuity."White House counsel Dana Remus told the National Archives in a letterthat the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol was"the most serious attack on the operations of the Federal government since the Civil War," and that Trump's efforts to keep Congress in the dark about what happened"is not in the best interests of the United States.
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a similar request from Trump's team to"maintain the status quo" earlier this week, noting that that"the status quo in this case" is that the National Archives will disclose the documents on Nov. 12 “absent any intervening court order.”his records be kept secret.
“Plaintiff does not acknowledge the deference owed to the incumbent President’s judgment. His position that he may override the express will of the executive branch appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power ‘exists in perpetuity,’" she wrote."But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.”
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