WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Former President Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a last-ditch effort to keep documents away from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol led by his supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s attorneys asked the Supreme Court to reverse lower court rulings against the former president, who has fought to block the records even after President Joe Biden waived executive privilege over them. The\u00a0federal appeals court in Washington\u00a0previously ruled the committee had a \u201cuniquely vital interest\u201d in the documents and Trump had \u201cprovided no basis\u201d for it to override Biden and Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The records include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts, handwritten notes \u201cconcerning the events of January 6\u201d from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and \u201ca draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity,\u201d according to a previous court filing from the National Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s filing came on the day that an administrative injunction issued by the appeals court was set to otherwise expire. That injunction, preventing the release of records, will remain in place for now. Lawyers for the House committee asked the Supreme Court later Thursday to expedite its processes and consider the case as soon as mid-January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Select Committee needs the requested documents now to help shape the direction of the investigation and allow the Select Committee to timely recommend remedial legislation,\u201d lawyers for the committee wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Repeating arguments they made before lower courts, Trump\u2019s attorneys wrote Thursday that the case concerned all future occupants of the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former presidents had \u201ca clear right to protect their confidential records from premature dissemination,\u201d Trump\u2019s lawyers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCongress cannot engage in meandering fishing expeditions in the hopes of embarrassing President Trump or exposing the President\u2019s and his staff\u2019s sensitive and privileged communications \u2018for the sake of exposure,\u2019\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The House committee has said the records are vital to its investigation into the run-up to the deadly insurrection aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. Before and after the riot, Trump promoted false theories about election fraud and suggested that the \u201creal insurrection\u201d was on Election Day, when he lost to Biden in an election certified by officials from both parties as fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The case was widely expected to reach the Supreme Court, which has decided several previous fights over Trump\u2019s records. Trump appointed three of the court\u2019s nine justices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court earlier this year\u00a0refused\u00a0to stop his tax records from going to a New York prosecutor\u2019s office as part of an investigation. It did\u00a0prevent\u00a0Congress last year, while Trump was in office, from obtaining banking and financial records for him and members of his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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