BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected former President Trump’s request to shield records from the January 6 committee
In asking the Supreme Court to reverse the lower court rulings against the former president and stop the National Archives from handing the records over to the committee Trump's attorneys argued investigators' request is"strikingly broad" and"untethered from any valid legislative purpose."
"While the protections of executive privilege and restrictions on access to presidential records are qualified, it is critical that future presidents and their advisers understand the contours and perimeters of that privilege — and its exceptions — after the conclusion of a presidential term," they argued.
"It would cause irreparable harm to the select committee by denying it the records it urgently needs to inform its ongoing investigation, including upcoming interviews of scores of witnesses," they argued."Obtaining this information promptly is necessary to fulfill the select committee's responsibility to understand the events of January 6, and recommend timely legislative changes designed to ensure that those events never recur.
The January 6 select committee has requested documents and testimony from a slew of White House aides, Trump allies, at least two members of Congress and organizers of the January 6 rally outside the White House. Some of the requests have spurned numerous legal challenges, as former White House aides have refused to turn over the documents, citing the former president's claims of executive privilege.
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